alt Hacker NewsSociety doesn't owe me over $500k/year for writing some instructions in a cryptic specification language. It's cool that I've been getting that, but I consider that luck and circumstance. When robots take my job I'll go find something else to do. I'm not going to blame evil rich people or some other boogieman.
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> Society doesn't owe me over $500k/year
No it doesn't. But as a human being, you and everybody still deserves a decent living. And our current system clearly does not provide that for a lot of people.
Im a medior and I earn 42k/yr. It would be a privilege for me to earn this much, as I cannot afford a home.
Society doesn't owe anybody anything. So who's to say when you find something else to do, it will pay enough to live?
is it like society does not owe any body money for puting sand gravel cement and water. we are talking about products not their assembly
No, but it owes you around 100K with a great work-life balance and job security because you spent years and years studying and honing your skills for it.
Fuck the American Dream
It also doesn't owe your CEO billions for hovering over a company where other people (like you) do the actual value creation.