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This article effectively is saying that if the demand for developers falls that salaries would fall. Which is obvious to anyone who has taken econ 101, but I have no idea how this is anymore of a "risk premium" than anyone else who works for a living.

> and the cut you’re taking from not working at AppAmaGooFaceSoft.

This pre-supposes that:

A) Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft are the highest paying companies (not only not true for liquid cash, even less true if you factor in start-up equity expectation)

B) Salaries aren't being set by all the other companies as well. [Generalists, at least in the Bay Area, are in a competitive employment market, not an oligopoly]

parent usaar333 6 years ago

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