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SWEs are treated extremely favorably by employers (good pay, flexible conditions, no standards of professionalism, no required formal education, no hazing rituals, etc) because unlike almost any other job, we have a practical next-best option to employment. https://t.co/BxDTLpoBm4
we can just build something ourselves, and compete with our potential employers. in almost every other industry employers compete for top talent, but only between each other because they provide the capital and structure required to provide value in that industry.
but in software employers have to compete with employees for their time. building software is dramatically more efficient alone, which offsets a lot of the inherent advantages of capital. 1 unemployed engineer โ 1 team's worth of capacity.