> rest of the world outside of tech, looks at tech and sees a bunch of very overpaid developers
They most certainly do, but it says A LOT more about them that they see developers as overpaid rather than themselves as underpaid.
Propaganda from the owners of capital has worked well by ensuring that anyone relying on an income is more likely to look left, right, and strike down than to ever consider looking up.
Most businesses are not very profitable at all. Like 5-10% margin. If you took all their profits and made them wages (ignoring the consequences), thats not a crazy amount of pay increase especially compared to what tech workers make.
No one has the responsibility to prop-up marginal businesses by toiling for them or purchasing their goods/services.
Absolutely requiring the American "minimum" standard of living is propaganda set nearly in stone by The New Deal.
I'm a child of the working class. I don't think it does my parents a disservice in stating that their sacrifice(s) and toil were not compulsory. I appreciate them, but my father would not have required extensive surgery to walk again if we had settled for less years prior.
They most certainly do, but it says A LOT more about them that they see developers as overpaid rather than themselves as underpaid.
Propaganda from the owners of capital has worked well by ensuring that anyone relying on an income is more likely to look left, right, and strike down than to ever consider looking up.