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Farmers aren't really paid, they sell goods at market prices. Modern farms are more similar to operating a manufacturing business than they are to a salaried position or profession. They don't earn high incomes compared to white collar professions but they do have high revenues and they pay themselves a reasonable middle class income on average with some added benefits from owning large assets and land. The important…
> Farmers aren't really paid, they sell goods at market prices. "Programmers aren't really paid, they sell services at market prices." — I guess nobody gets paid? As a farmer myself, when I give someone something I produced and they give me back something in return, I consider myself to be paid. If I did not receive much value in return for what I gave, I'd reasonably consider myself to have not been paid well. I hav…
Re: Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
#561I think you're stuck on the word "paid", I meant it as "receive a salary" or be in the employ of someone else rather than operating your own business.