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		01100011 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe coders should learn to love analog? (2024) IMO, the biggest reason America lags so far behind in many engineering fields is the success of our SW industry. It's not just EEs. Our SW industry is so successful and so lucrative that it starves other fields of bodies.

OutOfHere 7 months ago [–]

If the other fields don't pay well, it's their own fault.

kragen 7 months ago | [–]

I wrote what I think is a deeper explanation of the phenomenon at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304835.

petermcneeley 7 months ago | | [–]

This is a 'means of production' argument.

kragen 7 months ago | | [–]

Yes.

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