@JMMaok @richlitt like the fucking problem was JavaScript skills as opposed to the platform becoming purely inhospitable to any rational human who wants 8 hours of their day to not be torture.

@JMMaok @richlitt thank you for your addition. I genuinely agree in principle, but I will add to this pile. The value of a meme: "become a web dev, you'll get the engineer wage you deserve". The entire world ate up this shit.

@richlitt I would add an additional regional dimension to this, because the incentives of a European do not necessarily align with an American.

For me there’s always a large incentive not to profit but to lower the profit margins of entrenched predominantly American corporations. So, spite. Unsure if that’s extrinsic or intrinsic haha