[digitalsushi]

if software engineers get displaced, they will eventually drift into other jobs that benefit from people who solve problems like software engineers. and if the former software engineers are willing to work at a rate reduced to their former positions, and if they bring better efficiencies with them, then there will be a slow cascade.

it doesn't follow that all software engineers are excellent at other work, please don't take that from my quip. but i could see the pattern, over time, being large enough to identify.

since software engineering jobs historically are very well paid, it does give some plausibility that former engineers working for less money would have this displacing effect.

its all icky no matter what i think, maybe someone else can tell me why i'm wrong and cheer me up