That’s a lot of text to say that I’m generalizing. Yes I’m generalizing.

It doesn’t apply to all programmers. It’s very simple to figure out that it doesn’t apply to you, hypothetical gal who works on internal software tooling in London, OT. Very simple.

There are enough programmers who have had very good wages and stock options. We read about them on this board. Plenty, plenty have had options. Their rationalization was presumably that enshittification paid better.

You can also see that my generalization was in response to a luser-blaming comment. That’s the context; not from nothing. But maybe you don’t understand human communication.