▲ | varispeed 3 days ago | |||||||
> I could sit for hours, figuring out how to wire something up just so and get an idea made into something real. And it didn’t feel like work. That's why developers are poorly paid and viewed as disposable cogs. It feels "easy" to many people and so they internally think it is immoral to get paid and corporations ruthlessly prey on that feeling. Reality is that development is hard and requires immense mental work, constant upskilling and is not something you can switch off after 5pm and think of something else. Your brain is constantly at work. That work also is creating millions and billions that gets extracted from developers and flow to the greedy hands of the rich, who now control all the means of production (think of cloud services, regulation - try starting your own forum today, anything with user generated content etc.). Developer did themselves dirty. | ||||||||
▲ | sokoloff 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
TIL that “developers are poorly paid”. | ||||||||
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