Comment by Buttons840
4 days ago
An example of this I've personally seen is a friend who works on COBOL mainframes at a bank.
He writes COBOL and maintains a banking system that keeps the world running. Literally like a billion people die if the system he maintains fails. I maintain a VC funded webpage that only works half the time. I make more than him, a lot more.
> Literally like a billion people die if the system he maintains fails.
This has to be an exaggeration.
I can personally attest that I'll die if my bank's COBOL mainframe fails. Really got a lot riding on this.
If the banking system failed? Would be pretty bad...
You should ask your friend what they do with all of the half cents that are floating around in the banking system.
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