Coders didn’t exist 100 years ago, but writers, scientists, and artists all did, and their work is being stolen just as much as the coders. Tired take.
times changed.
i had to adapt to 3x my take home TC to get a job at a unicorn that ipo’d to like 10x or more my NW because i felt what it was like to work in an area where ppl were just laid off and i didn’t want to work 60 hours a week to impress some suit.
my relative is a phd research biochem scientist.
he had to adapt by taking a couple of years to switch sub-fields, taking on new roles and now in his latest research role he uses AI heavily to assist him to analyze data for patterns that humans had to previously brute force. he works on cancer research btw.
adapt.
crying is cheap and easy, for people who were going to be left behind regardless.
I, for one, wasn’t referring to compensation at all, just pointing out that the hard work of many is being stolen, mixed into a slurry, and spit out as slop. And people are right to be upset about that, again, regardless of any compensation (or lack thereof), or need to adapt, or anything else.
I am saying that this reply is irrelevant to the original post you were replying to.