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0 pointscloudjacker9y ago0 comments

I disagree, there was a time when the finance community similarly valued themselves with the broader market until some people realized the numeric dollar value they could create. And the rest is history. Its time for software engineers to collectively realize their expanding relevance to value creation in actual numeric value.

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eru9y ago· 3 in thread

Why collectively? Did the finance people need anything collective?

cloudjackerOP9y ago

Not sure how to answer that

It's routine to get bonuses larger than your annual salary in finance, specially in investment banking roles, this is not routine in software engineering

eru9y ago

Only the total compensation is important for me. If anything, I'd rather get a stable one than a variable one. (Variable is only better, if the expected value is higher.)

In any case, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212180 you said something like

- finance people used to get normal amounts of money, now they get more - hence, software people need to do something as a collective.

I don't see how the first implies the second. Especially since the finance people didn't do anything as a collective, did they?

cloudjackerOP9y ago

but many forms of greater liquidity could be possible for potential value producing software engineering roles

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