"...if only people were not starving in the streets..."
You have a bigger problem with IT then investment banking and international politics?
I am personally very happy that once in a while engineers are getting a kind of fair deal. Of course let's not forget that salaries in Silicon Valley were artificially suppressed for a while in an illegal agreement between the likes of Google and Apple. So being underpaid is what we should be really complaining about.
We are getting paid peanuts compared to the unfair captation of our values through Intellectual Property.
Let me be clear: we are undervalued by our companies, and overvalued when sold to the customers. Have you looked at apples/googles net (official) margin? 20+% Stuff like Danone are 5%. And They have incentive to underestimate their profit for paying less taxes.
A coder is like 40% ROI once you set your monopole.
You have a bigger problem with IT then investment banking and international politics?
I am personally very happy that once in a while engineers are getting a kind of fair deal. Of course let's not forget that salaries in Silicon Valley were artificially suppressed for a while in an illegal agreement between the likes of Google and Apple. So being underpaid is what we should be really complaining about.