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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 hours agoExactly right. Most of us older coders have been warning of this for years. It was not benevolence that Microsoft, Google, Amazon so gleefully pushed for more coders and coding boot camps. They wanted a flood of labor to bring down salaries. They knew this was going to happen, and I’ve been calling it out for years. This is exactly what they wanted.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
i had a “preminition” right before the pandemic that were going to start massive layoffs of tech workers soon, simply because they are earning hundreds of thousands a year, and the c-suites/ceos arnt going to let that slide.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 hours ago
we had a way of life they couldn’t stand. Average people doing normal work were able to afford normal lives while their company suffered under such heavy salaries. Anyone in tech should be planning now on their exit. I’m not afraid of AI, I’m afraid of executives pushing our salaries down to nothing.
I’m personally saving and investing everything I can with my tech salary now to plan for when I’m inevitably kicked to the curb, or they want to pay me minimum wage.