Re:Agony of an African programmer
by mattmanser on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:48AM
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All of them.
I think part of the problem is class, there's a psychological barrier in the UK that employees shouldn't earn more than managers.
The other part of the lower pay is that we had a lot more people dabble with development in our school system in the 80s/90s because of the BBC programs and the Micro/Archimedes in schools which means we started running short of developers a lot later than other countries.
Both of those are speculation, but that's my belief.
I think part of the problem is class, there's a psychological barrier in the UK that employees shouldn't earn more than managers.
The other part of the lower pay is that we had a lot more people dabble with development in our school system in the 80s/90s because of the BBC programs and the Micro/Archimedes in schools which means we started running short of developers a lot later than other countries.
Both of those are speculation, but that's my belief.