[munksbeer]

I think the general population earning median wages will have very little sympathy for first world software engineers earning vast amounts of money.

What are you going to tell them? Suddenly you're earning what they're earning for sitting at a desk every day?

[ShinyLeftPad]

General population, you mean non SWEs? Because there are many SWEs around the world who earn median wage and who stand to lose it all as the avalanche of firings is ramping up.

Non SWEs (salespeople, clerks, secretaries, assistants, taxi drivers, writers, 3D modelers, artists, designers) are of course going the same way. Unless they are protected (unionized or such), why would they have sympathy for SWEs? People of our ilk are the ones causing this (to them and to ourselves). What I will tell them is to not repeat our mistake, organize and protest.