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It's an outlier because unlike other service industries the software has global presence. An app written by software engineers laid-off 3 years ago will still run by itself with exceptions like servers running out of disk space. Unlike other services industry tech workers get laid off for:

1. When the product has failed market-fit and company is not raising anymore capital.

2. When the backlog has been cleared.

Tech workers get more pay by job hopping.