<story><title>Stanford CS enrollment increase &quot;downright scary&quot;</title><url>http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers-of-escalating-enrollments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Capitalism happens?  Seriously, anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented CS people are near $100k.  Anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented English majors are near... well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate.  This is Mr. Market saying &quot;Thanks, I&apos;ve got enough literary criticism -- can I please, please, please have more code monkeys?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>muhfuhkuh</author><text>&quot;well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate&quot;&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve noted your past fixation on English majors and their lack of financial success, and not sure why you single them out.  Lit crit-saddled academia and coffeeshops aren&apos;t the only path for the English major. Writing is not only a noble pursuit but a lucrative[1] one (even if you skirt the legacy publishing industry), with as much a combination of hard work and dedication to craft (and luck) as, for example, selling bingo card generators for a living, or mobile phone games, or b2b CRUD apps, or facebook farming simulators.&lt;p&gt;Aside from fiction writing, there are ad copy and marketing writers, technical writers, screen and television writers, bloggers, journos, etc. Most of those are salaried positions, not necessarily part time/contract work.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s really not that bad out there. For the record, I&apos;ve never worked at a coffeeshop :D&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/will-write-e-porn-for-1-million/9888&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/will-write-e-po...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Stanford CS enrollment increase &quot;downright scary&quot;</title><url>http://computinged.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/guest-post-eric-roberts-on-the-dangers-of-escalating-enrollments/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>patio11</author><text>Capitalism happens?  Seriously, anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented CS people are near $100k.  Anecdotal fresh-out-of-school salaries for talented English majors are near... well, they get discounted frappuchinos at any rate.  This is Mr. Market saying &quot;Thanks, I&apos;ve got enough literary criticism -- can I please, please, please have more code monkeys?&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thirtyseven</author><text>This kind of argument infuriates me.  Mr. Market wants lots of things, some of them are good, some aren&apos;t.  Besides, would a talented English major even want to be a full-time developer?  Would you want to work with them?&lt;p&gt;Not everyone lives their lives according to the principles of capitalism, just consider yourself lucky that at this moment, it&apos;s working out in our favor as developers.</text></comment>