You can't be serious.
> During a recession, it is either social assistance or one takes the job that is available.
It's only this way because we allow it to be. Huge productivity gains over the last decades have been captured by the .1%. There's nothing ambiguous or mysterious about it.
Anyone that worked through the dot-com bust is late-forties, at minimum. But they'd have to be mid-50s or older to really feel the effects and know what changed. And people in their mid-50s+ are a strong minority in tech.
If the median tech worker is 32, they would have graduated college after the GFC was over (2014ish).
Ok, im serious. It's silly to quote someone when you don't have a rebuttal.
2008 was 15 years ago, and didn't hit tech as hard as other industries. The last serious one was early 2000s. A significant number of people "in it for the money" or with non-traditional credentials simply had to leave the field.
I have to agree with the parent post here. What do you think the median age of HN commenters is? I'd say it's probably mid-late 20s, in which case most people graduated after the great recession was largely over and only experienced the COVID blip that wasn't a cyclical recession in the normal sense and mostly helped tech workers instead of harming them.
Based on that.
And this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322031
Which has more links to older surveys. Thus 40.