[saddd]

I wish articles like this would reference the antitrust lawsuit over collusion to artificially keep software engineer salaries low in the 2000s.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

I also don't see any references to scale. Your labor can impact the lives of x people as a lawyer, where you're constrained by the amount of hours in a day and geographical location. As a software engineer, your labor can easily impact x^6, or even more if you work for a technology market leader.

[godelski]

What I find weird about these conversations is that it never discusses what the higher ups and the companies are making. If CEOs were taking cuts and big corps were losing money, then yes, this conversation about paying employees less makes sense. But when the CEOs are still making record incomes (at least according to Forbes) and companies are increasing (or holding constant) evaluations (baring some noise), this doesn't make sense. It just comes off as "We're going to take a bigger part of the cake now and you're going to like it." But for some reason the conversation is about who deserves more of a shrinking slice of a cake that's growing. Somethings not right here.

[nadieyninguno1]

FWIW, a lawyer can achieve results in some circumstance. I paid $52 for an “NFA Gun Trust” from National Gun Trusts. It’s literally just a templatized PDF with “Settlor Name Here” and “Trust Name There” across a few pages.

[nadieyninguno1]

I can't understand why the above would be down-voted...

There exists fields of law where the income earning capacity goes beyond a function of (HOURLY_RATE * HOURS_WORKED) that can approach something more of a SaaS function. Another example is all those drive-time radio ads you hear - these lawyers often do not work in your area or state but work as a "Name you can trust" and refer on to local attorneys of variable quality. Franchise operations... not all law is a billable hour.