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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by singlow on Saturday February 06, 2016 @12:00AM (#11046615)
He said that (most of) the 4k rents are paid by bankers and lawyers. He did not say that most bankers and lawyers pay 4k rent.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by cplease on Saturday February 06, 2016 @12:29AM (#11046687)
I doubt there are more lawyers than engineers paying $4K rent in SF. But whatevs.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by DannyBee on Saturday February 06, 2016 @01:36AM (#11046819)
+1

For all this talk about how engineers "might" get laid off, this completely ignores the massive contraction of the legal market that has already happened.

Outside of a few specific areas of law, and a few high powered law firms, lawyers don't make that much money.

My ex, a nationally renowned family lawyer in literally the richest area of the country doesn't make more money than i do (and she runs her own firm, so it's not like she is being kept down by partners).

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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by ryanSrich on Saturday February 06, 2016 @02:01AM (#11046862)
Yeah the comment about lawyers and bankers making more than engineers is straight out of 1995. Outside of highly specialized degrees in medicine there really isn't any other jobs out there paying a white collar wage ($100K +).
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by icebraining on Saturday February 06, 2016 @05:41AM (#11047231)
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm
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