This article is a total and utter joke.<p>In my city, the vast, vast majority of people earn shit wages under shit conditions. They will work for their entire lifetimes and at the end of it have a state retirement which affords them some rice to go with their beans.<p>Software development is one of the very few careers that allows its&#x27; workers just about enough, in some cases but not all, enough to buy a home and to have some leisure time.<p>Yes, we are worth it. _Everyone_ is worth that. The fact that not all careers reward enough for basic living is an indictment on our society.<p>Not only that - he&#x27;s talking about food at work and fancy bloody chairs as if they actually mean anything. Wake the fuck up. Your boss has seven, eight, nine figures in the bank. That&#x27;s &#x27;indispensable&#x27;. Not this Stockholm Syndrome bollocks.<p>Divide and conquer.