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> And I'm 50 years old and have been coding since my teens, so save your predictions that I just haven't woken up to reality yet. Not everyone is a libertarian cynic.

Not everybody is a 50 years old cynic, too. Young people need to make money and the coding gigs aren't looking as promising as when you were in your teens.

Working for free (even worse, for the benefit of VC-funded companies) is not in the best interest of most software engineers nowadays, unfortunately.



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