Comment by aleph_minus_one

> You're getting paid to deal with other people's nonsense, and if you're in tech you're getting paid better than most to deal with less than most.

The problem is that you are paid for two things that are often contradictory to each other

1. writing good code

2. dealing with other people's nonsense

Many good coders really care about 1, so of course they are complaining.

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Concerning the argument that tech pays so well: this is very US-specific; in many other countries working in tech is rather some job that may pay the bills, but not more. So people who work there often do it because they are insanely passionate about programming.

This again, as I already outlined above, means that they really care about good code, and if "other people's nonsense" means sacrificing this, it will make the respective employees really furious.