[Buttons840]

An example of this I've personally seen is a friend who works on COBOL mainframes at a bank.

He writes COBOL and maintains a banking system that keeps the world running. Literally like a billion people die if the system he maintains fails. I maintain a VC funded webpage that only works half the time. I make more than him, a lot more.

[dyauspitr]

> Literally like a billion people die if the system he maintains fails.

This has to be an exaggeration.

[altmanaltman]

I can personally attest that I'll die if my bank's COBOL mainframe fails. Really got a lot riding on this.

[Buttons840]

If the banking system failed? Would be pretty bad...

[itronitron]

You should ask your friend what they do with all of the half cents that are floating around in the banking system.

[bitwize]

"It's not a virus, it's a worm!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcAACOrgVKE