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Where I live plumbers make more than an average software engineer. Owner operator plumbers make close to half a million a year. And don’t get me started on Plu

Where I live plumbers make more than an average software engineer. Owner operator plumbers make close to half a million a year. And don’t get me started on Plumbers operating a min of 5 trucks they make atleast a million and half. I know this because my brother law is a plumber.

onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago
What's a plumber do with 5 trucks?? You can't drive more than one, right?!
- jessewmc 5y ago
  A plumber with five trucks isn't so much a plumber anymore as a business owner employing five other plumbers.
  - tonyedgecombe 5y ago
    And the reality of that is almost certainly not as rosy as you are being led to believe.
phamilton 5y ago
I'm in California and I had a water leak on the property that cost me $500 on my water bill. My water provider offered a credit for the overage if I can prove that I fixed it. A local plumber charged me $400, provided me with the exact paperwork to send in, and I got a $500 credit. What a wild economy. I have no complaints, I understand why it works that way. And all my plumber had to do was smile, provide a bit of customer service, and repair one pipe.
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llimos 5y ago
Plumbers produce real value, i.e. the total value of the world is higher after they finish their work. This cannot be said for lawyers.
- cudgy 5y ago
  Or most software developers.
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    Software developers make the world a better place. Unfortunately, most of they ways in which they do so were already done in the 70s. It's just repeating that work in more modern languages / stacks.
    - bart_spoon 5y ago
      Some software developers make the world a better place. Many produce software that ultimately not that useful, and in the worst case scenario, actively harmful to society. Is the world a better place because of Apple, Amazon, or Google? Eh, you can make an argument either way. Is it a better place because of Facebook or Twitter? Unambiguously no.
    - HPsquared 5y ago
      That may be true, but the same could also be said about plumbing.
  - llimos 5y ago
    That's an interesting question. Some software is valuable according to this definition, e.g. Google search. Some is not, e.g. Google ad algorithms. Software is an enabler. It depends what it's enabling. Would be interesting to know the proportions.
    - fighterpilot 5y ago
      To clarify a piece of what you've said, devs working on Google ad algorithms are valuable to companies who are advertising. Your point is a higher level one that what these companies are buying from Google isn't of net value to society overall, even if it is of value to them.
908B64B197 5y ago
> Where I live plumbers make more than an average software engineer But the plumbers all use Google and have iPhones... But they aren't getting any stock from the companies making these as part of their comp package.

onlyrealcuzzo 5y ago

What's a plumber do with 5 trucks?? You can't drive more than one, right?!

jessewmc 5y ago
A plumber with five trucks isn't so much a plumber anymore as a business owner employing five other plumbers.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  And the reality of that is almost certainly not as rosy as you are being led to believe.

phamilton 5y ago

I'm in California and I had a water leak on the property that cost me $500 on my water bill. My water provider offered a credit for the overage if I can prove that I fixed it. A local plumber charged me $400, provided me with the exact paperwork to send in, and I got a $500 credit. What a wild economy. I have no complaints, I understand why it works that way. And all my plumber had to do was smile, provide a bit of customer service, and repair one pipe.

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llimos 5y ago

Plumbers produce real value, i.e. the total value of the world is higher after they finish their work. This cannot be said for lawyers.

cudgy 5y ago
Or most software developers.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Software developers make the world a better place. Unfortunately, most of they ways in which they do so were already done in the 70s. It's just repeating that work in more modern languages / stacks.
  - bart_spoon 5y ago
    Some software developers make the world a better place. Many produce software that ultimately not that useful, and in the worst case scenario, actively harmful to society. Is the world a better place because of Apple, Amazon, or Google? Eh, you can make an argument either way. Is it a better place because of Facebook or Twitter? Unambiguously no.
  - HPsquared 5y ago
    That may be true, but the same could also be said about plumbing.
- llimos 5y ago
  That's an interesting question. Some software is valuable according to this definition, e.g. Google search. Some is not, e.g. Google ad algorithms. Software is an enabler. It depends what it's enabling. Would be interesting to know the proportions.
  - fighterpilot 5y ago
    To clarify a piece of what you've said, devs working on Google ad algorithms are valuable to companies who are advertising. Your point is a higher level one that what these companies are buying from Google isn't of net value to society overall, even if it is of value to them.

908B64B197 5y ago

> Where I live plumbers make more than an average software engineer But the plumbers all use Google and have iPhones... But they aren't getting any stock from the companies making these as part of their comp package.