GeniesLoki

But either way it might be useful to consider the following hypothetical worlds: * Nurses are paid current software developer salaries, nothing else changes * Software developers are paid current nurse salaries, nothing else changes Who benefits from this? Who is harmed?

(I'm not saying these are the only options and I too want a radical restructuring of the social order, but even these are fairly inaccessible options and shame should be about options that are accessible to you)

Does it help if you think of your salary as mostly being about extracting money from people who have more of it than you?

A conversation I had a while ago: X: (describes consultancy job Y is considering) Me: Sounds like their business model is basically scamming money out of large companies. X: Yeah, but- Me: Which is a good thing, of course. That's what large companies are for.

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