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faithisleaping@anarres.family ("Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋 :v_tg: :v_lb: :v_greyace:") wrote:
And it’s not like those people are free, either. Golden handcuffs are a thing. Those salaries often include RSUs and other financial tricks that make it financially devastating to ever quit your job. Those work environments are also usually incredibly abusive. When we were working corporate, my wife described it as “They pay you that much to shut up and take their abuse.”
You need the job to be able to afford therapy that you need to keep doing the job.
I wish I were joking.
Having a big software engineer salary just means you have more wealth for them to extract. At the end of the day we’re all just the people in the pods in The Matrix, producing wealth for the capitalism machine.