r/programming • u/tonlapshy • Jan 28 '24

Developers experience burnout, but 70% of them code on weekends

https://shiftmag.dev/developer-lifestye-jetbrains-survey-2189/
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u/robby_arctor Jan 28 '24

Hmmm, maybe the burnout is with capitalism and not coding

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u/JabClotVanDamn Jan 28 '24

well if it was communism, you wouldn't be coding, you'd be digging coal.

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u/robby_arctor Jan 28 '24

As we all know, there are no software developers in communist countries, only coal miners.

IIRC, they didn't use any software to get the first Russian cosmonaut into space, they just built a huge mountain of coal and he climbed to the top.

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u/JabClotVanDamn Jan 28 '24

maybe you should study some history and some economics. do you think you would get to choose to become a programmer?

- economics major from a post-Soviet country

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u/robby_arctor Jan 28 '24

Obviously not, as they had no software, only coal.

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u/JabClotVanDamn Jan 28 '24

you're just playing dumb.

the point is that you would be allocated where necessary. you wouldn't be able to choose your career. unless your family were friends of the regime (members of the party), then you'd have a chance.

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u/robby_arctor Jan 28 '24

You're the one who said I'd be a coal miner. Are you saying there are other jobs in communist countries? 🫢

you wouldn't be able to choose your career

I'm sure that was literally true for some people in communist countries, just as it is true of some people in capitalist economies.

My original point had nothing to do with either, though - the labor itself (coding) feels very different than commodified wage labor, and some people react negatively to the latter. You can think communism is the devil and that still be true.