Actually where I live in the EU plumbers make more than most software devs because there's so few of them. It takes months for a scheduled job and emergency work is obviously top dollar.
It's called the market. If you can compete while not employing eight year olds on your assembly lines and dumping carcinogens in the river, go ahead and compete with those bad companies.
> It’s called the market. If you can compete while providing better life balance, go ahead and compete with those bad companies
With friends like you, who needs enemies? Imagine if we said that about everything. Go ahead and start a garment factory with unlocked exit doors and see if you can compete against these bad garment companies. Go ahead and start your own coal mines that pay in real money and not funny money only redeemable at the company store. Go ahead and start your own factory and guarantee eight hours work, eight hours sleep, eight hours recreation. It is called a market, BRO‽
Post 2022, tech CEOs decided that workers had too much power and needed to be brought down a peg, so they did layoffs and worked to get Trump elected to erode worker power even further. Just look at the leaked group chats with Andreesen.
The inference is cheap, but the context window costs for iteratively debugging architecture issues add up fast. Things like state management or migrations usually require feeding the whole stack back in multiple times, which blows past that budget pretty quickly in my experience.
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