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Even in the high demand field of software engineering the vast majority of people don't have the option to choose between multiple jobs to take. You take what you can get. Not unlike healthcare in which you usually have no say in what healthcare you get when you need it.


Agreed. It's insane the employer gets to dictate what doctors I get to see! How is that even reasonable and acceptable?

I wrote a response to this article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20281150

Would love any input!




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