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		ttul on Dec 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? A part of me can’t wait for this to happen. The pretenders and hucksters get cleared out. Good people and good ideas have a chance.

_skel on Dec 29, 2019 [–]

Good people and good ideas need funding, which dried up pretty bad during the last recession. The startup market got hit harder than any other part of tech. The established tech companies as of 2008 survived the downturn and IIRC most of them didn't even do layoffs.

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