This java.net article on the changing nature of software employment elicited the following fairly awesome comment:

More Fascist propaganda - I'm 31 have a BSCS and 4 years of experience and I can't make a living writing software while I can make it driving a truck or working a clerk at the post office. The Real World: 1. Money does matter. 2. A Java or other Software Developer in the U.S. is usually doing integration, support, or other bs (I.E. not software dev). 3. Most Software development is not in the U.S. and will not be until the exchange rates trade rules are balanced 4. The U.S. is going down the tubes fast due to government and elistist greed (mainly high taxes, regulation, and false exchange rates). 5. The U.S. is due for a revolution. 6. The Engineer, Mathmatician, and Scientist will own the future. 7. Socialism is a failure. 8. Fascism is a failure. 9. Competitive advantage is the only path to freedom. Note: Competitive Advantage is just a fancy term for trade without unequal government intervention. 10. All the people in the world without the ability to build their own robot by 2030 will be dead or a slave. 11. I embrace the future and shred the tyrants.

Posted by: tberthel on September 22, 2005 at 08:59 AM