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Comment by jollofricepeas

Exactly.

Fundamentally, tech workers don’t seem to understand this point mainly because they are making more money than “everyone else.”

The other reason is that we as humans don’t understand big numbers. Big ape brains can’t understand the gap between $1 million and $1 billion let alone 100 billion.

If software engineers would have banded together a long time ago to get a larger piece of the pie like professional athletes, then….

- Senior engineers would make NFL wages

- And quants would be making NBA/NFL wages

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