Capitalism isnt collapsing, it increased the standard of living far beyond what the world has ever seen. Inequality is rising and so is the quality of water and electricity in Africa. Stop spreading this misinformation, capitalism has begun the ascendence from slavery and rigid classism.
This exactly. The big data technology is automating a ton of the distributed systems difficulty from what mixpanel is creating. We built n in house version of mixpanel in six months, that is more customized and more expansive.
Honestly? Just master data structures, get competing offers at FB and Google, make 350-400k a year, invest heavily and aggressively, retire in 7 or 8 years
This is a middle class (no offense intended) view of wealth. You wont retire early or get rich from cutting down on 5$ lattes. Investments do accrue over time, but the idea that one should strive to save every dollar will not really help you in the long run. That extra 25k a year does almost nothing for you in the scope of your life.
To expand further, what is that saved money really getting you? Over the course of a decade, lets say you have an extra 200k in your pocket, then what? You have the comfort of knowing you can lose your job, but beyond that, what do you get? You will still retire at the same age, you are still locked in the daily drudges of going to work.
just start writing high data volume spark programs, you wont quite understand or remember why the configs and tuning params are what they are until you try.
Just take a look at the massive rise in quality of life across the world. Your alarmist post is bunk. Life is getting better for everyone all the time.
Personally, I think you are wrong. If you are an average engineer, you should be very afraid. But if you are exceptional, you will see your comp shoot through the roof in the coming years.
I firmly believe this. If you arent brilliant, you arent writing real software, you are copying what other people are already doing. Any monkey can do that.
"LSD happens to be one of the safest recreational drugs"
Purely anecdotal, but have you ever met someone that has taken large doses of LSD over the course of a few years? They are almost always permanently changed
"i still think in a lot of corporate environments, money is definitely being made on the side by the decision makers when it comes time to pick an outsourcing firm, or award a contract to a contracting company, you know, you jack me off and i will jack you off later kinda thing, gotta grease the wheels of the company politics once in a while or else you might get caught not working"
I know for a fact that this happens excessively at a very big, well know and well respected company. Huge levels of corruption and under the table payments for outsourcing/contract labor.