One limiting factor in that calculation might be not just the speed/skill of the programmer, but the number of companies with such positions available.
Indeed. Not to mention that no one has been doing that for a very long time. That's not what coal miners, nor has it ever been what coal miners do.
A guy who shovels coal into a furnace was called a "stoker", and that unskilled labor job was automated out of existence about a hundred years ago.
A coal miner is a skilled laborer who (nowadays) uses advanced machinery and technology. Look into how "longwall mining" works. It's pretty cool.
I assure you, human beings are not mere cogs. The sooner you divorce yourself from the notion, the better off you and any employees will be.
IMHO programming is even more specialized than most jobs, it requires constant learning to maintain a productive ability. Eg. Before 2013 how many people were doing react native programming? How many people are writing Pascal code today?
BTW does anyone really believe Joe Biden is an athority on coding? He probably thinks a coder is a guy sending messages by tapping a CW Keyer!
Class C truck pallet delivery, crane, climb, connect, organize individual or aggregated items weighing 5-30lbs. None of these is sit, type, wait, compile, ponder and I know many of them would not want that life.
However, without violating NDA I can tell you there are furnaces and "throwing" involved in making components for the Tesla Model 3.
The real question is can they learn to be a politician, or say a Burisma board member?
I would argue for the benefits of retraining people of dying industries for work in growing industries.
"They probably could have trained pigeons to drop in coal chunks in return for bird seed."
Yeah. Other than on very small scales, that job was automated out of existence a hundred years ago. I'm surprised to hear that anyone is still employed doing that, frankly.
Does he really not know the difference between being a coal miner (which is a skilled trade, if dirty, strenuous, and dangerous) and being a furnace stoker (which historically required nothing but a strong back)?
The dewey decimal system is more complicated that the request/response cycle should be.
We invent busywork and it will take coal miners to break this farce, so bring on the coal miners!
Hindsight 2020
(just kidding, Sanders 2020)
