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So true, and the nature of the work is also really different. Kind of unrecognizable. Before, there was a majority of folks who were into computers & programming as their hobby, since their teens / earlier, socialized around it, had personal projects as well as their day job - not saying it was healthy, but that's how it was. Now, mostly people that just did ok at school, wanted an easy/decent paying job, and do it a…
That is still true in many places outside the US, where salaries haven't bubbled up, mostly geeks and nerds.
Money has this way of ruining good things.