Interestingly the average salary for "computer systems design and programming" has gone down whilst the number of jobs have gone up.
Says a lot about the motives of the "altruistic" individuals who permeate the myth that "everyone can code."
Says a lot about the motives of the "altruistic" individuals who permeate the myth that "everyone can code."
On the other hand, there's simultaneously a lack of wage rises in most of the technology industry combined with extreme worker shortages in some parts of the industry, so it makes me think there's some vast inefficiency lurking somewhere keeping trades from clearing. My personal theory is: it's the Bay Area real estate markets. If we had a housing crunch in the place where companies want to hire workers that was observed to eat up most (though not all) available salary increases as increased rents, thus causing it to be uneconomical for employed experts in other areas to open their jobs by leaving for higher salaries in the industry's major center, leaving companies in the center locked in a zero-sum struggle to hire a shrinking pool of rich workers while increasing portions of the industry's labor force outside that one geographic area sit underutilized... it would look a lot like reality.
In other words, these "altruistic" individuals have vastly grown the number of people who can earn a comfortable life without large negative impact on the rest.
So between these guys and yourself, who is altruistic, and who is "altruistic" with scare quotes? Who is creating greater good for more people, and who is watching out for themselves?