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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by oblib on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:43PM (#19709040)
What you say is true, but it's also true that the bar is lower than it was 20 years ago and it continues to move that direction, at least when we talk about simple "apps" as opposed to bleeding edge technologies now.

For example, "Chart.js" makes it really easy to create beautiful charts in a web app. Because of tools like that it's much easier to learn how to build a feature rich app now than 20 years ago.

Still, the guy who can create "Chart.js" (an artist) should be getting paid a lot more than a guy who can only use it (a craftsmen).

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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by musingsole on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:58PM (#19710464)
> Still, the guy who can create "Chart.js" (an artist) should be getting paid a lot more than a guy who can only use it (a craftsmen).

Why? One without the other is pretty pointless. I can accept the roles are different but not that either is particularly harder.

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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by FunkyDuckling on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:02AM (#19710617)
Because there is one of him vs thousands of the other
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Re:We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage by rootlocus on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:37AM (#19710684)
Some people can do both, but choose the second (using a library) because of all the reasons reusing existing libraries instead of rolling your own. From this point of view, I'd rather hire someone who doesn't suffer from the "not invented here" syndrome.
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