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Tangential: could you expand on the phenomenon behind software engineer salaries? Or any links for my own research?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

It's relatively early. Nobody is associating this with software yet. But given the unique salaries in the US (with the epicenter being the bay area) it's quite obvious this is what's going on.




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