&gt; Even in the tech industry, if you&#x27;re not a coder, you&#x27;re going to be dealing with a completely different sort of life.<p>My company&#x27;s IT personnel are all full-time employees, with decent salaries and medical coverage. I&#x27;m actually underpaid relative to my peers, but I&#x27;ve managed to negotiate certain perks that are pretty important to me.<p>But social inequality has always existed, you have to compare rungs on the ladder to what those rungs looked like 10-20 years ago. I&#x27;d argue that if you look at it that way, life is only getting better and better for people.