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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by mjh2539 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:32AM (#32147881)
Precisely; electrical engineering as a field requires enormous amounts of capital. Software development also requires capital, but not nearly as much, and the returns are much higher.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by naasking on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:27AM (#32152010)
The iPhone had some pretty huge returns for Apple. Maybe "most" EE doesn't have huge returns, but that's also true of most software.
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