Re:How to Get Rich Quick in Silicon Valley
by watwut on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:54AM
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Isnt the last quote true, actually? I have seen a lot of people complaining about job market in SV and articles about people who struggle to get jobs for various reasons. (And also different people having good time, but that does not cancel out others.)
> They knew that well-paid programming jobs would also soon turn to smoke and ash, as the proliferation of learn-to-code courses around the world lowered the market value of their skills,
The complains about outsourcing are complains about exactly this. And complains about jobs going to cheaper young people. And the complains about young people not being as awesome or passionate or obsessed natural geniuses or whatever as we all supposedly were. And complains about people who went to school and have degree, but don't have experience yet. There seems to be a lot of insecurity going around.
And logically, learn-to-code courses that makes it easier to learn to people who would not even know where to start or that it is possible to learn programming easily are bound to lower the marker value of our skill.
> They knew that well-paid programming jobs would also soon turn to smoke and ash, as the proliferation of learn-to-code courses around the world lowered the market value of their skills,
The complains about outsourcing are complains about exactly this. And complains about jobs going to cheaper young people. And the complains about young people not being as awesome or passionate or obsessed natural geniuses or whatever as we all supposedly were. And complains about people who went to school and have degree, but don't have experience yet. There seems to be a lot of insecurity going around.
And logically, learn-to-code courses that makes it easier to learn to people who would not even know where to start or that it is possible to learn programming easily are bound to lower the marker value of our skill.