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The person the headline refers to is a webdev. What job is that getting rid of?

garretraziel 1y ago
Cashiers, some officials, a lot of the “personal contact with a customer” gets transferred to web. I am not complaining, just answering the question.
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- devnullbrain 1y ago
  Same goes for a truck driver, road builder, railway worker, etc. FWIW, I spent many years as a cashier. It's not something I find inherently more valuable to the world. If we could trust people not to steal, we wouldn't need them.
sokoloff 1y ago
Web dev doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Web dev for e-commmerce displaced brick and mortar retail. Web dev for streaming displaced video rentals and audio sales.
- devnullbrain 1y ago
  Web devs are a tiny proportion of the employees needed for e-commerce.
  - sokoloff 1y ago
    Without them (and mobile devs, though there’s increasing cross-over), e-commerce doesn’t get done. Ergo, web devs are directly contributing to the outcomes that e-commerce enables.
    - devnullbrain 1y ago
      Ok, but so is everyone involved with building the fulfillment centre, the sorting machines, the roads for delivery, the trucks, the railways... If it sounds like I'm including a lot of jobs, it's because every non-service job in the history of the post-industrial revolution economy has revolved around making things more efficient. Software development is not some uniquely evil domain.
      - sokoloff 1y ago
        I agree. I was just answering the upthread question, which seemed to imply that web devs have no part in it.
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  - dang 1y ago
    Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - devnullbrain 1y ago
      I don't actually see which guideline it's breaking. It's a serious offer.
- dang 1y ago
  Could you please stop crossing into personal attack? Your account has unfortunately been doing this a lot and we ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
  - closewith 1y ago
    Nothing in my comment was a personal attack, only a reflection of GP's own behaviour. Go ahead and ban the account if calling out these comments as written is unwelcome. But beware the behaviour you welcome by leading it unchallenged.

Cashiers, some officials, a lot of the “personal contact with a customer” gets transferred to web. I am not complaining, just answering the question.

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devnullbrain 1y ago
Same goes for a truck driver, road builder, railway worker, etc. FWIW, I spent many years as a cashier. It's not something I find inherently more valuable to the world. If we could trust people not to steal, we wouldn't need them.

sokoloff 1y ago

Web dev doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Web dev for e-commmerce displaced brick and mortar retail. Web dev for streaming displaced video rentals and audio sales.

devnullbrain 1y ago
Web devs are a tiny proportion of the employees needed for e-commerce.
- sokoloff 1y ago
  Without them (and mobile devs, though there’s increasing cross-over), e-commerce doesn’t get done. Ergo, web devs are directly contributing to the outcomes that e-commerce enables.
  - devnullbrain 1y ago
    Ok, but so is everyone involved with building the fulfillment centre, the sorting machines, the roads for delivery, the trucks, the railways... If it sounds like I'm including a lot of jobs, it's because every non-service job in the history of the post-industrial revolution economy has revolved around making things more efficient. Software development is not some uniquely evil domain.
    - sokoloff 1y ago
      I agree. I was just answering the upthread question, which seemed to imply that web devs have no part in it.

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devnullbrain 1y ago
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- dang 1y ago
  Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - devnullbrain 1y ago
    I don't actually see which guideline it's breaking. It's a serious offer.
dang 1y ago
Could you please stop crossing into personal attack? Your account has unfortunately been doing this a lot and we ban accounts that do that. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
- closewith 1y ago
  Nothing in my comment was a personal attack, only a reflection of GP's own behaviour. Go ahead and ban the account if calling out these comments as written is unwelcome. But beware the behaviour you welcome by leading it unchallenged.