Coding for $15 an hour?

Coding for $15 an hour? The author of this article suggests that maybe something is wrong with the tech industry. Duh! Salary and wages are very simple. The employer will pay for the value that the employee provides. They are looking for a web developer with 1 year experience. There is a large supply of people that qualify. If you want to command a higher salary, differentiate yourself. Get skills that others don't have. Provide more value, and you can extract higher compensation, end of story. But thinking that I am a programmer so I deserve a certain salary is absurd. Talk about un-american. The american way is earning your living. Do we deserve jobs because we live in America? No! We earn our living by providing more value than the other guy.

It's the critics fault

Some Senators are blaming critics of the war for falling recruitment. Maybe falling recruitment is a sign of people's opinion of the war. How would they like the war portrayed in the media? Fun, exciting, dodge roadside bombs with your friends.

"With the deluge of negative news that we get daily, it's just amazing to me that anybody would want to sign up," said Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican. So should we hide the truth, and convince everyone that war is wonderful? It seems like the more we understand the real awful reality of what happens daily, the more we will try to do in the future to prevent war. As America's support for the war diminishes, we are all realizing that more should have been done to avoid going there in the first place. In the days of smart bombs and the video game like attacks from afar, it doesn't seem so bad. Sure, just bomb them, no problem. Well we are seeing that it still can't be done in an easy sterile way. It's probably a good wake up call for the nation. War sucks, lets try and prevent it. Lets try and avoid it. Lets try to make our policy such that we are a world leader and a world citizen. Not a world bully.

Toll Roads

It looks like some senators would like roads to be privately funded.They are citing budgetary problems as a reason for it. They don't want to burden the taxpayers with the costs. It seems to me, that roads are one of the fundamental things that our tax money should go for. If we have budget problems, that should be worked out by cutting other non-fundamental services that the government provides but shouldn't. At the end of the day, the citizens must still pay for the road, but our representatives get out of their responsibility of providing constituent service, and fixing budgetary problems.

The Beginning

I've been reading quite a few blogs for a while now, and finally decided that I might have something to say as well. I think I will post on a number of topics, including philosphy, economics, software development (my job), books I'm reading and anything else that sparks a passion.

Cheers,

Mike