This industry is a race to the bottom and long overdue for a massive salary reset. There is no society on Earth where someone who codes JavaScript (poorly) should make more money than, say, a doctor. Yet here we are.

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honeycrispy 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A lot of doctors are just pill prescribers. I can't tell you how many times I've been to useless doctors that don't help and give you a big fat bill on the way out the door.

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caminante 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How much do you think doctors make?

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tokyobreakfast 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Some make less than new grads at AMZN with 0 YOE.

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caminante 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> Some

You're really playing loose with the Venn diagram here.

Only "some" Amazon SWEs would "code JavaScript (poorly)."

	▲	tokyobreakfast 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yet they're all expendable because their chosen skills are not essential for society to survive. They could all disappear tomorrow and the web and everything around it would move on.