Are my skills going to be more or less valuable ten years from now?
I personally believe that the salary ranges will follow a shallower bell curve, with lower starting pay, a lower median, and a much smaller group at the top making huge bank.
As to where any specific individual falls on that curve... that will depend entirely on your talent.
It isn't just talk anymore.
I suspect that it'll be the same... but different. There's always an edge to be found and good applied logic practitioners then, like now, will be paid well for their time.
The protection of employees, heath care system, pension, holidays, the social safety net and cost of living, to name of few are too different.
In general you need to multiply your EU salary x2 to get a comparable US salary.
In many European countries (e.g. UK), the pension contributions are a form of income tax (i.e. proportional to income), while the pension is a fixed sum that barely allows you to survive - regardless of how much you've paid in contributions. I don't know how SS works in the US, but it's hard to imagine a worse system.
> cost of living
I've compared two random third-tier cities in US and Western Europe:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/El-Paso
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Bordeaux
The costs of living are actually really close within each other.
There are online courses, some free, for those topics. There are open source projects on many of those topics.
If we’re fine with the same shitty technology 10 years from now, then salaries will stagnate.
But what do I know, game developers continually make amazing stuff and somehow that industry found a way to squeeze them. Tough to say how it all will play out.