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Stop minimizing mental health issues. It's profoundly harmful!
Thousands of people in the world jumped off some bridge after being told "you have a good life, take it easy" one time too much.
> We're in the goddamn catbird seat.
A lot of developers have very undeserved jobs, yes.
> We make a shitload of money
Not everybody has the sheer privilege of being born in the right country. In most lands developers are quite underpaid.
> we punch keyboards in a heated office at a desk. We're not mining coal
If you are talking about modern coal mining - it's done by pressing buttons while sitting in a heated steel cabin.
If you are talking about mining with a shovel - that's some dishonest cherry-picking.
On top of that, burnout and suicide rate strongly correlates with feelings of doing a pointless job.
When cooking or building a house or mining coal people can be get a surprisingly amount of satisfaction from their output.