I just realized something. We are such a wealthy and privileged society that there isn&#x27;t much real motivation to take a high demanding and stressful job like software development.<p>You&#x27;re playing on the Indian&#x2F;Chinese are good at C.S. trope, but really isn&#x27;t it possible that life is just harder there and they are forced&#x2F;highly motivated to MAKE themselves good at C.S. in order to improve their quality of life?<p>It makes me rethink my perspective that &quot;yes everyone should learn to code because it makes your life better (money, independence, etc)!&quot;. Honestly we talk so much about depression, anxiety, poor work-life balance, in this industry WHY the hell are we trying to drag more people down with us? Is the compensation really worth it compared to alternatives? Aren&#x27;t there actually a lot of jobs that pay $80k+ (or equivalent Bay Area spending power) in the world?