undefined | Better HN

0 pointsnova220338y ago0 comments

There are a LOT of people in tech who are really insecure about their own jobs. They see any move like this as a plot by bigcorp to undermine their job prospects.

Training kids to code? Yup..threat to their own job.

0 comments

3 comments · 1 top-level

crdoconnor8y ago· 2 in thread

>There are a LOT of people in tech who are really insecure about their own jobs.

If the rest of the job market looked like it did in the 1950s, sure - no problem. I don't see any reason to feel particularly secure when this is what's going on outside of tech though:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-prof...

>They see any move like this as a plot by bigcorp to undermine their job prospects.

Either tech bigcorp is concerned about their bottom line or they aren't. If they are, then wouldn't it be economically rational to try and reduce their largest expense - developer wages?

I wonder sometimes if people are really naive enough to think that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to "reform immigration" or "get CS taught in primary schools" out of the goodness of his heart.

nova22033OP8y ago

What does the plight of adjunct professors have to do with the job market for software professionals?

>I wonder sometimes if people are really naive enough to think that Mark Zuckerberg is trying to "reform immigration" or "get CS taught in primary schools" out of the goodness of his heart.

First a non sequitur and now a strawman? I don't think Zuckeberg lets me use facebook out of the goodness of his heart either...

crdoconnor8y ago

>What does the plight of adjunct professors have to do with the job market for software professionals?

I see tens of thousands of (often desperate) people trying to get in to the profession because that's what it's like on the outside.

So far demand has outstripped supply, but I can see demand collapsing if/when VC dries up and demand remaining the same while people continue to flood in to the profession.

That is, over time, I expect the job market for software professionals to end up more like the job market for adjunct professors than vice versa.

>First a non sequitur and now a strawman? I don't think Zuckeberg lets me use facebook out of the goodness of his heart either...

Right. So you think Facebook is run for advertising dollars and his other "charitable" ventures (e.g. to reform immigration) are run as an attempt to undermine developer wages?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse