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Journalist Sharing Their Salary

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30 pointsJeanSebTr16 comments

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I recently wrote one of these salary-sharing surveys for my college. Making one survey that is comprehensible and also includes all the different compensation options is HARD. I'm impressed by their ability to do so in this survey.

These salaries are higher than I expected

Yikes. Makes me appreciate my SWE career.

Too bad a functional fourth estate is a dependency for, you know, western democratic capitalism.

Less puckishly: What I feel upon reading this is sort of like that feeling when you find out some bad piece of news about climate change. It's bad enough on its own, but what it implies about the overall health of the national and international socioeconomic context, which, as SWE I (like you) depend on for my survival, is enough to keep one up at night.

Who, among folks smart enough to earn six figures writing code, will deign to don gumboots? And if they don't, who will?

And what happens to us when that person proves incompetent, irregular, desperate, uninformed, or lackadaisical -- all the things that (under capitalism) a healthy salary is supposed to ward against?

Considering stuff like

> Covering up Epstein's crimes to protect the Clintons

I guess this whole thing is absolutely meaningless?

It appeared to be better a few days ago when it was first posted. The form was public and anonymous and it became popular so the trolls got a hold of it or so it appears.

Unfortunately it seems that way now.

When people report their salaries, I always wonder how we can know they're telling the truth.

What would they gain from anonymous lies?

Welcome to the internet, you must be new here :)

Jokes aside, there are at least a few suspicious looking responses on that doc relating to Epstein like "Job Duties: Covering up Epstein's crimes to protect the Clintons".

So to answer the question, I guess they get to spread their views on particular news networks they disagree with.

Not that I think this is happening, but in theory they could bump up the averages and use that as ammo the next time they're negotiating their compensation.

This one is pretty interesting/funny (more so if it's not fake):

Chief Media Correspondent

CNN

$1,054,000

White cis male

New York

Pretend ABC didn't cover up Epstein's crimes / Report every minor thing about Fox News and Trump / Envy Sean Spicer's dance skills

It’s fake, and it’s poisoning the data pool.

Hrm, I kind of assumed the epatein stuff might have been one network emoyee laying some blamr on another network, as well as maybe acknowledging much of the media's general overreaction at times (which Trump plays upon), as well as being a bit self-effacing, but on a fresh look, it does seem a lot more obviously fake. :/

I wanted to edit this comment to fix the "Epstein" misspelling I made while on my phone, but I can't edit it (and the delete option is also gone), but I can still edit my top-level comment if I want. I checked back on my phone, and it showed the edit, but clicking it just acted as if I had used the comment anchor link. I haven't seen that before.

Row 279 is also .. er. Made up.

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