People rejoice when IT workers are laid off - A thread went viral on Reddit explaining why IT layoffs make people so happy.
Basically, they are happy not for someone else's dismissal as such, but for the fact that IT specialists also turned out to be vulnerable. Here is what is most often mentioned in the comments:
- "Just learn to code": this is what IT experts would advise those who lost their jobs in other fields.
- Arrogance and disdain for non-IT people.
— The feeling that the industry received excessive wages compared to other departments and socially useful professions.
— Videos about easy work for big money: like "My working day at Google".
— High salaries and benefits compared to income in other professions.
- Complaints about poverty with a high income, which seems disconnected from life.
- Damage to technological products: tracking, advertising, artificial intelligence, social networks, data collection and disinformation.
- In the past, IT specialists automated other people's work - now in the comments they are happy that AI is already threatening the developer profession.
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