I bet the 50 % waste reduction involves them pledging and donating the GMOs they can ' t sell to people too poor to know the food they ' re getting is toxic or otherwise contaminated . <| sep |> For every I ' m sick of the battery posts post that I see , I ' m making three new battery posts . <| sep |> The meat of what you ' re saying makes sense focus on fundamental programming skills , be language agnostic , and be able to adapt . That said , you ' re conflating a lot of stuff here , and not making apples to apples comparisons . There are still companies out there with critical platforms built on old dead languages , and they pay A LOT of money for people who can maintain them . Almost the entire banking industry relies on PLSQL and Java the former of which most of you have never even heard of . Whether it ' s bleeding edge , or old hat you ' ve still got to specialize in order to get a job . Nothing says your specialties can ' t change . Edit added clarity .