I love programming, but I feel like it doesn’t have too much use outside getting people to spend their hard-earned money in stuff they don’t need…
I feel like jobs such as manufacture, cooking, agriculture and whatnot contribute way more to society than all the “Big Data” or “Business Intelligence” garbage… They actually help fulfill people’s needs.
All this comes because I tried to think a way that programming could help fulfill the needs of at least some people, but all I could think of is that maybe it could help government administration or something…
I’m honestly thinking in just stop searching for tech-related jobs and settle for a less paying but more helpful and fulfilling job. Just anything where I can feel like I’m actually helping people.
Thanks for reading my rant.
I don’t think programming is useless, but if it were it’s not immoral to take a useless job in capitalism. If you do enjoy it though, doing it as a job could make you lose the passion for it. Another reason you might not want to go into programming is that the high salaries and benefits for programmer labor aristocrats came because as the field was new, capitalists wanted lots of people to get the skills so they could be useful to them. Now that there are a sizable population of programmers the higher supply will satisfy the demand and make your labor cheaper to the tech bourgeoisie. And with the way the economy is going and how we’ve seen companies like Twitter and Facebook largely downsize it will likely get worse in the coming years.