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Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by worik on Saturday September 03, 2022 @10:26PM (#32709154)
But computer programmers are over paid and janitors under paid.

It is because if all the computer programmers went away the world would limp on. If all the janitors went away we would be swimming in shit.

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Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by lotsofpulp on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:40AM (#32709895)
No, it is because if all the janitors “went away”, everyone else can pick up the cleaning supplies and continue cleaning.

Supply and demand.

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Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by kortilla on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:08AM (#32710033)
If all of the people who could be janitors went away, there would just be nearly no people. Being a janitor isn’t really a special skill.
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Re:Porsche boss faces software woes keeping VW a step behind... by himinlomax on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:52AM (#32710848)
Surgeons are over paid, garbage men are under paid.

Except that should you need surgery, you'd care who the surgeon would be, but not who would be handling the bags of medical waste.

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