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Easy? Perhaps you have it easy. This comment makes the same mistake the article makes: Generalization.

Instead of stating that you have it easy, you say we have it easy. Instead of saying she had certain problems, the author says everyone has certain problems (and, more importantly, she leaps to systemic discrimination, class-warfare, etc. as somehow-implied conclusions).

Some of us actually have to work hard, even in tech, and had to work hard to "make it" in the first place. I didn't have to work as hard as she did, but others did (and I bet few of us are such attractive females as to have the options she did, which makes some of her criticism ring a little hollow). And my experience certainly hasn't been what I'd describe as easy.



It's 10x, maybe even 1000x harder to make it as an artist or musician than to make it in finance, engineering, nursing, or accounting.


Easy in the strict sense of job security. That's the only way I meant it.

Not many other professions can just up and leave and without a doubt land a job pretty much anywhere you like.

Hell I can go anywhere in EU and probably land a job, a freedom many don't have.




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