Almost feels like my brain is broken or some shit.

I’m looking at the pricing of houses in my area and comparing it to my salary, and how the actual fuck is anyone affording a house these days? We’re talking almost half a million for a house that takes <2 days to build and is practically an irl copy and paste of some of the homes down the street. What the actual fuck. It seems like I’m the only one (though I know I’m not) who sees how this is completely at odds with everything I learned about the world.

Also, so salaries. How the fuck are they determined? Because it certainly isn’t the result of how much actual work you do, I’m making nearly six figures and I do jack shit yet I’m supposed to just be OK with how morally repugnant that is, as if I’m not also a piece upholding the same utterly corrupt system as well?

Fuck if I know, I try to say this shit to people irl and they just tell me that the world’s not fair blah blah blah. Yeah homie, “not fair” is quite possibly the biggest understatement ever.

I very much understand what people say when they say that money is not real. Feel free to grill my complete ignorance of Econ too if you wish, maybe it’s just something I’ll never understand

  • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    so salaries. How the fuck are they determined

    Not sure how yours is determined because I don’t know what you do, but in software there are contractors that charge exorbitant prices to do like the most basic programming task. So if a company pays a developer a salary, they don’t have to do very much to make it extremely worth the while of the business. Like if someone makes 80-100k per year and develops like an api layer using cloud services, maybe a few months work, it’s already more than paid for itself. Anything else they work on that year, or doing tech support work, is basically free. I have a friend who writes yaml configs for azure services and makes incredible amounts of money, but works very little. But like you say, you have to always be by the computer. So even though the pay is high the work is still exploitative.

    • Hohsia [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      21·
      5 months ago

      I’m a salaried SQL developer but here’s where the guilt comes in. I don’t “develop” anything. I parse a script that someone else wrote decades ago and tweak it to work for certain scenarios.

      lmao a lot of people are referencing bullshit jobs in this thread, and this answer is like the epitome of a bullshit job. Sounds like I might be a duct taper if I’m remembering right?

      It gets difficult though because I’ve talked to some programmers who fucking grind so maybe I’m just an extreme outlier.