Published earlier this year, but still relevant.

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    0% of the fault lays on the students who got the degrees they were told were in demand by every single adult in ther life.

    This was a coordinated push by our government and tech sector to drive down the cost of skilled labor by oversaturating the field.

    I say this as a CS major that was forced to work fast food for 6 years until I could find a shitty tech support job and work my way up from there, there was never a single opportunity for me to be a programmer like I intended.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In the 1970s companies started “Stack Ranking” all their employees and firing the bottom 10% in order to replace them or simply using their wages to pay CEOs more.

    Companies used to provide workers a pay related sense of justice, a career for life.

    Now the media will jump past all this to blame anything but the CEOs and failure of Government to reign in the wage gap via the force of law.