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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by s73ver on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:55PM (#14851782)
Because many of the people who could make $100k doing software could make several multiples of that doing something like finance, and be in a more respected profession to boot.

Whenever the salary question comes up, people are always quick to compare it to the country at large. But that's not a valid comparison; someone who would be a qualified software engineer isn't deciding between that and being a retail clerk. They're deciding between going into that or something like finance, where they can make many multiples of what they could as a software developer.

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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by tanilama on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @05:09PM (#14851877)
I think 100k is still attractive, when u can only make 50k.

Seriously though, are we really arguing why cannot everyone just get over themselves and work for Wall Street now? Only that level of vanity is worthy of an incentive, otherwise it is not worth it?

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