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by smsm42 4422 days ago
I'm curious - how much money would you be willing to bet on that? At which odds?

I've been through the dotcom crash and minor disturbances after, and the jobs never "disappeared". Yes, there were layoffs, pay cuts and hiring freezes. But not all jobs disappeared, and most of the people who lost their jobs found new ones after a while. I'm not diminishing the pain and suffering of those who got caught in bad situations there, but it's not like the whole IT disappeared and people went back to abacuses and wired telegraph.

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>>But not all jobs disappeared

I wrote "all jobs" in one place and in another "a lot of software people [...] again".

Since you were also there, what I meant should be obvious...?

In my Swedish job market, there was also something similar around a decade earlier. But it was not only for software people.