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I guess I'm a tech lefty and yeah its honestly a bit teriffying and I dont get why almost no one I meet does not care for it.
i think it's crazy high salaries; it insulates them from the problems that the rest of us have have to deal with in our lives.
i first noticed it around the tail end of the earlier "IT half" of my career when my payrate started to push up against six figures; now at over 20 years as a software engineering that's solidly past that boundary (like most well connected software engineers are); the opinions/outlooks/expectations of my colleagues have become so toxic to me that i've decided to go back to IT permanently.
also: the work seemed to get more and more evil as i progressed in the software engineering half of my career. i'm convinced my current gig is a net detriment to humanity and society like all my software engineering gigs were and i'll be taking a 56% pay cut to avoid the that profit-seeking-evil in a non-profit organization that teaches people who can't afford to dedicate their lives to a college degree like a 19 year old from the suburbs can do.
a big part of me is sad that i will never become rich like my current colleagues; but i think that my psychological well being matters more and it's a union job so there are other perks that help compensate for it.