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Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google by jseliger on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @02:01AM (#7464134)
To bolster your point and weaken this—"newly minted lawyers were still making several times as much as good programmers"—see also Paul Campos's Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk and Steven Harper's The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis.

It is true that a tiny number of lawyers make a lot of money straight out of school, but as noted their numbers are small and their hours (and often lives) awful.

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Re:Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google by atmosx on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:01AM (#7464488)
A tiny number of everything makes insanely lots of money: Developers, Lawyers, Chefs, Engineers, etc. Speaking for that tiny number, does Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple's top management (who are or were developers at some point) qualify as developers? If yes, then there's no comparison I guess.

That said is more than obvious that in a digital world the future belongs to developers, because the demand for them will go up, it's inevitable.

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