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I don't think that comparison would be illustrative. I suspect that trends in tech wages in the Bay Area are divorced from those in other fields in the same way that finance wages in New York are.

The productivity of a single programmer has famously increased as the rise of multimillion-dollar companies with less than ten employees shows. You still need the same number of nurses and teachers, though.




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