[sp332]

Ok, and we don't make a billion dollars doing it.

[Kranar]

You're literally on a site founded by a billionaire who coded.

[sp332]

Viaweb was sold for about $50 million worth of Yahoo stock. So more than 95% of the first billion was from something other than coding.

[sidlls]

The rate at which finance mints extremely wealthy workers dwarfs the rate at which software does.

[smabie]

I think it's probably pretty pretty similar actually.

I would say tech probably has worse median outcomes but better right tail outcomes than finance.

[lotsofpulp]

I would bet on the opposite, at least since 2008.

[Kranar]

Doesn't look like it dwarfs it. According to Forbes, 15% of billionaires are in finance, 12% are in fashion, 9% are in tech.

[sidlls]

The comparison would be more accurate with the relative sizes of each industry. Pretty sure there are more software engineers than people working in similarly skilled finance jobs.

[djbusby]

He is not We.