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by tziki 868 days ago
Salaries vary by field. You can be an incredibly talented animation artist but you'll still get paid less than the average software engineer.
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right, but that's approximately because one is less valuable modulo the adjustment period and some noise.
Wrong, it's because being an animation artist is much more often a career of passion, which brings down the salaries in the industry due to increased labor supply.