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If you are so brilliant and terribly productive but sill work in such a toxic environment for such low pay, then either you need to switch to a more reasonable employer or you are not really honest with us here.

> There is a long and deep history of the wealthy classes pitting the lower classes against each other in this very way,

Considering yourself part of low class if you are a software engineer is the root issue here.

> primarily by directing anger at the middle tiers from the lower, and a fomenting a sense of fear of the lower tiers in the middle.

I'm not arguing that the effect you are describing doesn't exist. The point is that you are applying to the wrong part of society.

> I have checked out the income distribution in the US: you're way off.

"Way off" is not accurate. The income distribution is extremely steep at the top end. If 1% is at 350k the 150k is not far away. 2%? 3%? The page you linked doesn't load from where I am located. It's surely within the top 5% which you still ascribe to be the elite that's manipulating everybody. I'm doing the exact opposite of expressing support.

Right, let's just 10x all incomes. Which will also 10x all costs. This will totally make society just and save the planet.

No need to look in the mirror and realize our privilege.

I'm sure your salary, stocks and bonuses compensate you royaly for your heroic effort from your armchair in an office with nice AC, unlimited snacks and coffee and no requirement to show up before 10am.

Those millions that were wasted and later "saved" were likely because somebody misunderstood AWS billing and hacked away without bothering. Likely also being compensated royaly.

This bubble and the consequence of feeling entitled left and right is pretty disturbing.

> This meme that tech workers are obscenely overpaid is just an example of how the propaganda of the truly wealthy elite works.

Or it's a realistic view from outside your bubble.

Check out the income distribution of the U.S. public and realize that the typical software engineer is within the top 1% when considering total compensation. And put that in relation to what the typical programmer contributes to society which is rarely within the top 1%.

> Instead of standing in solidarity with the counter lady and doing things to lift her up, you’d rather tear the IC down. It’s sad.

I stand in full solidarity with the Walmart lady. Lifting her up doesn't mean gettinf her into programming bootcamp though. Her rent is so sky high because all the insane tech worker compensation around her inflated housing costs.

The comments in this thread makes all this entitlement pretty obvious.

Our whole industry is obscenely overpaid. Managers and ICs alike.

Don't believe me? Ask the lady behind the Walmart counter for her total compensation. Time to re-evaluate your bubble.