[karlgkk]

I suspect that if you’ve got your feet planted in the tech industry as an engineer, you have a long career with stagnant wages ahead of you

Followed by a huge boom in salaries once the workforce shrinks.

For example, go look at the hourly wage of a cobol programmer.

[scrubs]

I knew a great graphics design artist ... really talented. Besides logos, slogans, art she could run print lines. Then www came out and she became despondent. Any fool can do this now she said. She was in NYC at the time. I told her 82 million times yes, but the top 10% can now charge more for the discerning customer who didn't want the bottom 75% of junk. She didn't buy that. And gave up. It's a shame in a way.