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It's not about how hard you work. It's about how many people can do what you do.

Don't sell yourself short, in tech you have skills that only a small percentage of the population are capable of doing. We might all say "Programming is easy" or "I really only work half the day" but for many people Programming is seen as witchcraft, and for many what would take a skilled developer an hour would take a whole day (or worse, they might just do the task manually).

If your not satisfied with programming you can of course go into teaching, if that's what you think is truly fulfilling.



I think very similiar to ighhh.

It doesn't make it fair that in theory 'everyone' could get into it or that it takes probably much longer for someone to do my job than the other way around (like yes i think i would be able to sell things).

I don't know how we should incentive instead but it doesn't make it fair.


You're just basing your view of what's fair on time spent working/physical labor. If you base your view of what's fair on skillsets, and what one person can do, and what one person can not, it makes more sense.




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