Comment by basilgohar

4 days ago

The job market under our Great Leader has taken away a lot of this agency. Software engineers have gone from having the pick of the market for themselves to becoming (perceived as) next to disposable.

That's a very American-centric point of view; the job market worldwide for developers is getting tougher and tougher.

  • I'm willing to have my leader take some of the blame for this as well. I think the decisions of the leader of the what's still the largest economy of the world likely has an outsized impact on the rest of the world too. It's getting less and less, for sure, but still significant. I'm not trying to be American-centric, I'm trying to accept that what we do has an impact despite unequally applied isolationist mentality of some here.