Bull Fucking Shit. There's a difference between knowing how to use a computer, program a computer, and computer science. An engineer doesn't have to have a degree in computer science to use a computer. Any idiot can program a computer and again an engineer doesn't need to know that. [...]
Sorry, I disagree. Knowledge of math and technology doesn't mean you can program effectively. In my experience, there are a lot of smart EEs and physics majors who are able to get jobs in CS but don't have the fundamentals down and aren't able to be efficient, effective coders. That doesn't mean they can't learn it, of course they can. Just like most CS BS would probably have been able to make it as an EE or BS physics. Then of course there is the the engineering part, the knowledge about the craft of programming and how to work on teams, learning how to take over a large existing codebase - so much of being a professional programmer is working on other people's code, and you don't get much exposure to that in college typically.
It's possible this was done for some reason related to getting more moar h1b visas, but there's plenty of push behind that already. I have worked with a bunch of irritated EE programmers (I'm from the lower applied science, i.e., CS:-)), who are angry and pissed at the world, generally because they spent so much time in all those EE courses doing stuff that's not relevant to their jobs as programmers.
Let's not forget that Obama's party had 100% control of congress for nearly two years when he took office. They could have had ANYTHING they wanted and All the republicans could do is stand yelling on the capital steps and stomp their feet hoping the press would cover it.
I think that single payer would have been much much better than what we have. But the dems didn't have that much of a majority and all those chicken shit conservative dems were not really on board with it. We lost single payer because one senate vote counted so much - that senator from Nebraska, a conservative dem, who did lose his seat, personally held out his vote to kill single payer, and that vote was needed so out it went.
I don't agree that raising restaurant wages to $15 an hour in Seattle raises prices very much. Remember when Elizabeth Warren discussed how much restaurant prices commonly have to increase with min wage increases - just a few cents, a few percent. I'm willing to pay 1 or 2% more so that someone can have a living wage. There were also some astro-turfy (chamber of commerce type) groups around Seattle looking around for restaurants that were closing because they couldn't afford labor increases. They came up with some examples that were later proven to be bogus.
It's certainly possible that raising the amount you pay employees could wipe out a business that can't afford it, but that turns out to not generally be the case here. The claim that raising minimum wage is wiping out small businesses has become an article of faith on the conservative side, just like global warming.
The other side is you shouldn't have any minimum wage - the problem is that then those workers get various welfare coverage, like Walmart. We shouldn't being subsidizing Walmart's ability to pay people a tiny amount.
I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix.
I live in Seattle and I've never heard of anyone with such crap internet. The vast majority of people here have comcast, sadly, like me, and it works just fine.
[...]Like I've said before; you deserve it. You've made your bed with your la-la land government — so live in it. Next lifetime, change your ways and vote for grown-ups.
He just lives in some weird neighborhood in Seattle. Like in many cities, there are a few different cable companies; it has nothing to do with liberal seattle. I used to live in a city in arkansas and it had the same stupid mix. Virtually everyone in seattle has access to sucky comcast. I can get comcast or slow dsl. A very few areas have fios but they don't do new rollouts. It's no different than most places in america. There are a few lucky areas that have fios or gig ethernet, but most places don't.
Seattle has actually been working to figure out how to roll out access using their dark fiber to end users, but they are stupid and afraid to commit to spending money on it. In seattle there is one really interesting provider, Condointernet.net (bought by wave g a little while ago). There are many condo & apt buildings in seattle and now other cities that get cheap & fast gig ethernet. It's a wireless technology. http://gowaveg.com/our-buildin...
People may be cutting the cord, but they are still paying for TV. Now they are just paying Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Sling, instead of Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter. Oh, wait, they still are paying Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter for the Internet service so they can also pay for streaming services. I'm not sure the total bill will be going down much.
But you paid Comcast etc way more than you pay Netflix etc. And my netflix bill doesn't go up or down each month and doesn't have mysterious charges on it, unlike cable.
I think the best thing is ignore comments from all people that use terms like social justice warrior or use SJW because they think they are so cute. Get over your racism, sexism, and inability to treat people as individuals.
Basically, I've encountered two classes of H1-Bs:
-Folks who are exceedingly good at what they do and are sought out by name. They are by no means cheaper, but a company has to do H1-B to get them.
-Folks who are cheaper and held hostage to their circumstances.
I think across the industry the latter is at least somewhat more common (it's the simplest explanation for the high volume of H1-B requests from specific companies, it's unlikely one company would need the former case by the hundreds). However this situation results in some reactions that are highly offensive to those in the first category.
Thanks for that insight on h1b. I've been a dev for 20 years and that exactly matches my experience. Many good people, good engineers, who were just not us citizens, and then occasionally I'd meet someone not so good. I do read stories about what seem to be lower level jobs in the us replaced by outside firms hiring h1-b's with massive layoffs. That's terrible and wrong. My experience working at Microsoft (left almost 10 years ago) was that we hired all the good devs we could find, and there just were enough americans. We always had 3000+ job openings. The same was true at the next giant company I worked in.
But like the recent example of California Edison replacing IT workers with H1Bs, that's wrong. Explicit replacement should be illegal. And training your replacement when you are laid off should be a fine paid to the work of 5 years salary.
That's a great link, thanks. I always wonder how many EE people end up being devs, since it pays more and there's more demand. I know a lot of EEs who ended up as software engineers, and some of them wished they hadn't ground through all those tough EE classes and instead spent more time working on their programming.
I have read in India non-CS fields lose so many engineers to the software world that there is a huge shortage of junior people, they just get sucked up into programming. I have wondered if this would happen in the US, but I haven't see it happening - there are just a lot more engineering, math etc grads here.
All of the numbers in this article are very believable.
(my personal financial plan is to expect a 50% paycut when something happens to my MSFT employment)
In summary, I have no problem believing the numbers. Top quality CS people at top quality organizations are paid outrageously well.
No, you should expect your salary to go up when you leave Microsoft! There are even enough jobs here to absorb a big layoff from mr softy. I worked there for more than 10 years, and had no problem finding my next job.
I assume you are in the Seattle area if you are at Microsoft. If you are a dev, you should expect your salary to go up after you leave Microsoft. The big co job train goes between Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook in Seattle, and then there is almost every mid tier company here, plus hundreds (1000s?) of startups. I'd been at 2 of those for almost 20 years, and tried a startup that paid what I'd been making at my previous big company job (although I lost the annual stock grants that were actually worth something, and the startup had no bonus).
Now I'm heading back try a middle tier company, and I'm back in that world of high salary, plus bonus, annual 4 year stock grants. It's so much money I can hardly believe it. My new company focuses on long term hiring, they don't want to burn people out.
My spouse works in education and if you have lots of experience and a master's degree and have national board certification, you can make $90k at the top of the salary scale. We paid interns 65-75k at one of the big companies above, here in Seattle, and I'm sure new college hires make more than $90k. $90k is barely enough to buy a house, but starting teachers make in the $30's, which is barely above poverty wage in the big cities in puget sound.
Another crazy thing is I constantly meet people moving up here because the weather is so great, the traffic so much better than SF and the houses are so cheap:-)
I foresee years of frustration for you as anthropogenic global warming continues to worsen despite your rejection of it. Maybe you'll eventually come around to the warmist side because the physical evidence piles up to the point where even you can't ignore it but I'm not holding out hope.
Someone who believes global climate change, almost certainly caused by humans has to give some reasoning why they think it's all a big lie:
1. Getting rich off research grants? This one's almost too stupid to list, but I've read it.
2. Trick people into giving up their freedom or something to reduce climate change? I never understand what this means really. Is it the idea that actions and choices in my own life might have any negative repercussions is unacceptable?
3. It's all a big lie? How come other areas of science are not all big lies, like evolution, geology, cosmology (the universe can't be that old, the bible told me so).
A few tips:...
- 240V/30A line to the garage. Who knows, you may get an electric car in the future.....
230V/30A is not enough. The Tesla Model S already takes 80 amps with dual chargers for fastest charging. Run 100 amp wiring, even if its not hooked up yet to your panel. In the future people will have ever more power hungry electric cars.
I wish I had known how mundane and utterly banal most software development is.
I spend 99% of my time on bug fixes, documentation, configuration management, and writing new code that quite frankly, aside from exact implementation, isn't that much different than code I wrote 10 years ago.
If your job has gotten boring, where only 1% is interesting, try to do something different. I was bored at my job at "big company" and was fortunate enough to move on to a startup, where I'm making the same salary, but learning all kinds of new things. I'd say I'm 50+ percent doing new things. And there's the chance of lots of money through equity. Meanwhile, I'm having fun. And I'm feaking old, starting my 3rd decade of work as a software engineer, so there's hope for you folks whining about how boring and terrible your job is.
On point 2: I've had mostly the same experience, but I'm not sure why that is. Perhaps it's a cliché, but in my experience, men are often more dominant and less concensus-seeking, women tend to listen more and better. Also, if you screw up (in a minor way), a man will give you an earful but they'll forget about it soon after. Women however tend to forgive but not forget.....
Oh come on, you can't generalize about managers who happen to be women. You only have a very few data points. All these comments are unfair and sexist. Just as if you only had one black person who was your manager then you cannot say "all my white managers were great, but the one black guy was bad".
Don't generalize about a group of people. Most people are too aware they can't say things like " of people are bad communicators so they can't be good at a job". Let people be individuals, and don't try to limit them based on your previous experiences.
I am really sorry for your situation and hope you get medical care that you need and your prospects improve.
You raise a good question from your terrible circumstances. Why don't lots of people in terrible circumstances turn to crime or destruction out of the unfairness of their situation? I think that most people even in extreme circumstances are mostly just interested in improving things for themselves and their family. Those people living in the terrible despair of the Palestinian refugee camps or Syria today have all the reason and justification in the world to be terrorists but most of them are not.
There's nothing immoral about tax avoidance. Tax evasion, maybe.
The law has simply changed such that past avoidance schemes are no longer legal.
I used to feel that way, but I think it's all part and partial of the way that the US is destroying itself, by ending campaign donation limits, making corporations almost people, legalizing hiding who donates to candidates, and the legal way that corporations and rich people give money through lobbyists and get tax breaks that benefit only them. It's wrong.
I'm not against big companies, I was fortunate to work at two of the largest software companies in the world, both mentioned up above in this thread. But I do want basic checks on their power.
What do you call the use of unchecked power, that hurts the system but might help your own causes, but destroys things otherwise? I call that immoral. It's certainly legal. It's wrong too.
Making up yet another straw man argument doesn't prove your point. Taxes are not 90% of profits in general - they are much smaller. If taxes were somehow fixed and happened to be close to the amount of profits, and there was price elasticity, then prices would probably go up so the business would be able to show a profit. But that's not the situation. Amazon is happy to have no profit as long as the business is growing.
A better example is microsoft or google - they make tons of profit, and taxes are far below the profit. They easily and legally (but immorally) avoid taxes through the standard tax cheats, like the irish and netherlands tax dodges. They won't raise prices if they stood to make a little bit less profit.
How about your cousins who live on the bad side of town? Or too bad for the kid whose dad wasn't as smart as you and had a car wreck on the way home from his second min. wage job? It's screw them because that is not me?
In the U.S.A. it is a lot cheaper to settle than go to court.
Not if you have an in-house legal department.
The settlement could well be because Apple fears what might come out in the discovery phase.
Non competes almost always don't apply in California. If they moved those employees to California, wouldn't that mean the non-comp end?
Non-competes are only good for companies. They should be ended. Did you know that as a matter of policy, lawyers aren't subject to noncompetes.
And socialism causes SOO much good. Yeah to governments telling everyone what to do and putting you in jail (or killing you) if you disagree.
People (companies) free do what they want. BAD
People with guns and the weight of the "law" (government) free to do what they want. GOOD.
What you are describing is more totalitarianism. Socialism is laws saying things like "you can't fire someone just because they are pregnant", or "you can't refuse to serve people because they are black", and crazy things like everyone should have access to health care. If you can't accept those things, you are naive, ignorant, confused. How about access to education? Is that only for rich people?
Where is the socialism you are thinking of that requires you to pay certain amounts for certain jobs? You aren't thinking of minimum wage laws in the US, I'm sure. You are not thinking of Europe, because they don't have minimal pay rules other than kind of minimum wages. They don't have laws about making too much money.
Russia, China? I think they have even fewer rules there.
That seems like terrible advice, there are too many lawyers already, law schools are getting sued by students who can't get jobs.
However, where do you live that there are no jobs for devs? Please just move to seattle and get a job. interns make 75k here!
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Bull Fucking Shit. There's a difference between knowing how to use a computer, program a computer, and computer science. An engineer doesn't have to have a degree in computer science to use a computer. Any idiot can program a computer and again an engineer doesn't need to know that. [...]
Sorry, I disagree. Knowledge of math and technology doesn't mean you can program effectively. In my experience, there are a lot of smart EEs and physics majors who are able to get jobs in CS but don't have the fundamentals down and aren't able to be efficient, effective coders. That doesn't mean they can't learn it, of course they can. Just like most CS BS would probably have been able to make it as an EE or BS physics. Then of course there is the the engineering part, the knowledge about the craft of programming and how to work on teams, learning how to take over a large existing codebase - so much of being a professional programmer is working on other people's code, and you don't get much exposure to that in college typically. It's possible this was done for some reason related to getting more moar h1b visas, but there's plenty of push behind that already. I have worked with a bunch of irritated EE programmers (I'm from the lower applied science, i.e., CS :-)), who are angry and pissed at the world, generally because they spent so much time in all those EE courses doing stuff that's not relevant to their jobs as programmers.
Let's not forget that Obama's party had 100% control of congress for nearly two years when he took office. They could have had ANYTHING they wanted and All the republicans could do is stand yelling on the capital steps and stomp their feet hoping the press would cover it.
I think that single payer would have been much much better than what we have. But the dems didn't have that much of a majority and all those chicken shit conservative dems were not really on board with it. We lost single payer because one senate vote counted so much - that senator from Nebraska, a conservative dem, who did lose his seat, personally held out his vote to kill single payer, and that vote was needed so out it went.
I don't agree that raising restaurant wages to $15 an hour in Seattle raises prices very much. Remember when Elizabeth Warren discussed how much restaurant prices commonly have to increase with min wage increases - just a few cents, a few percent. I'm willing to pay 1 or 2% more so that someone can have a living wage. There were also some astro-turfy (chamber of commerce type) groups around Seattle looking around for restaurants that were closing because they couldn't afford labor increases. They came up with some examples that were later proven to be bogus.
It's certainly possible that raising the amount you pay employees could wipe out a business that can't afford it, but that turns out to not generally be the case here. The claim that raising minimum wage is wiping out small businesses has become an article of faith on the conservative side, just like global warming.
The other side is you shouldn't have any minimum wage - the problem is that then those workers get various welfare coverage, like Walmart. We shouldn't being subsidizing Walmart's ability to pay people a tiny amount.
I live in Seattle, and I don't know anyone with a connection fast enough to stream Netflix.
I live in Seattle and I've never heard of anyone with such crap internet. The vast majority of people here have comcast, sadly, like me, and it works just fine.
[...]Like I've said before; you deserve it. You've made your bed with your la-la land government — so live in it. Next lifetime, change your ways and vote for grown-ups.
He just lives in some weird neighborhood in Seattle. Like in many cities, there are a few different cable companies; it has nothing to do with liberal seattle. I used to live in a city in arkansas and it had the same stupid mix. Virtually everyone in seattle has access to sucky comcast. I can get comcast or slow dsl. A very few areas have fios but they don't do new rollouts. It's no different than most places in america. There are a few lucky areas that have fios or gig ethernet, but most places don't.
Seattle has actually been working to figure out how to roll out access using their dark fiber to end users, but they are stupid and afraid to commit to spending money on it. In seattle there is one really interesting provider, Condointernet.net (bought by wave g a little while ago). There are many condo & apt buildings in seattle and now other cities that get cheap & fast gig ethernet. It's a wireless technology. http://gowaveg.com/our-buildin...
People may be cutting the cord, but they are still paying for TV. Now they are just paying Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and Sling, instead of Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter. Oh, wait, they still are paying Comcast, Time Warner, and Charter for the Internet service so they can also pay for streaming services. I'm not sure the total bill will be going down much.
But you paid Comcast etc way more than you pay Netflix etc. And my netflix bill doesn't go up or down each month and doesn't have mysterious charges on it, unlike cable.
I think the best thing is ignore comments from all people that use terms like social justice warrior or use SJW because they think they are so cute. Get over your racism, sexism, and inability to treat people as individuals.
Basically, I've encountered two classes of H1-Bs: -Folks who are exceedingly good at what they do and are sought out by name. They are by no means cheaper, but a company has to do H1-B to get them.
-Folks who are cheaper and held hostage to their circumstances.
I think across the industry the latter is at least somewhat more common (it's the simplest explanation for the high volume of H1-B requests from specific companies, it's unlikely one company would need the former case by the hundreds). However this situation results in some reactions that are highly offensive to those in the first category.
Thanks for that insight on h1b. I've been a dev for 20 years and that exactly matches my experience. Many good people, good engineers, who were just not us citizens, and then occasionally I'd meet someone not so good. I do read stories about what seem to be lower level jobs in the us replaced by outside firms hiring h1-b's with massive layoffs. That's terrible and wrong. My experience working at Microsoft (left almost 10 years ago) was that we hired all the good devs we could find, and there just were enough americans. We always had 3000+ job openings. The same was true at the next giant company I worked in.
But like the recent example of California Edison replacing IT workers with H1Bs, that's wrong. Explicit replacement should be illegal. And training your replacement when you are laid off should be a fine paid to the work of 5 years salary.
That's a great link, thanks. I always wonder how many EE people end up being devs, since it pays more and there's more demand. I know a lot of EEs who ended up as software engineers, and some of them wished they hadn't ground through all those tough EE classes and instead spent more time working on their programming. I have read in India non-CS fields lose so many engineers to the software world that there is a huge shortage of junior people, they just get sucked up into programming. I have wondered if this would happen in the US, but I haven't see it happening - there are just a lot more engineering, math etc grads here.
All of the numbers in this article are very believable.
(my personal financial plan is to expect a 50% paycut when something happens to my MSFT employment)
In summary, I have no problem believing the numbers. Top quality CS people at top quality organizations are paid outrageously well.
No, you should expect your salary to go up when you leave Microsoft! There are even enough jobs here to absorb a big layoff from mr softy. I worked there for more than 10 years, and had no problem finding my next job.
I assume you are in the Seattle area if you are at Microsoft. If you are a dev, you should expect your salary to go up after you leave Microsoft. The big co job train goes between Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook in Seattle, and then there is almost every mid tier company here, plus hundreds (1000s?) of startups. I'd been at 2 of those for almost 20 years, and tried a startup that paid what I'd been making at my previous big company job (although I lost the annual stock grants that were actually worth something, and the startup had no bonus).
Now I'm heading back try a middle tier company, and I'm back in that world of high salary, plus bonus, annual 4 year stock grants. It's so much money I can hardly believe it. My new company focuses on long term hiring, they don't want to burn people out.
My spouse works in education and if you have lots of experience and a master's degree and have national board certification, you can make $90k at the top of the salary scale. We paid interns 65-75k at one of the big companies above, here in Seattle, and I'm sure new college hires make more than $90k. $90k is barely enough to buy a house, but starting teachers make in the $30's, which is barely above poverty wage in the big cities in puget sound.
Another crazy thing is I constantly meet people moving up here because the weather is so great, the traffic so much better than SF and the houses are so cheap :-)
I foresee years of frustration for you as anthropogenic global warming continues to worsen despite your rejection of it. Maybe you'll eventually come around to the warmist side because the physical evidence piles up to the point where even you can't ignore it but I'm not holding out hope.
Someone who believes global climate change, almost certainly caused by humans has to give some reasoning why they think it's all a big lie: 1. Getting rich off research grants? This one's almost too stupid to list, but I've read it. 2. Trick people into giving up their freedom or something to reduce climate change? I never understand what this means really. Is it the idea that actions and choices in my own life might have any negative repercussions is unacceptable? 3. It's all a big lie? How come other areas of science are not all big lies, like evolution, geology, cosmology (the universe can't be that old, the bible told me so).
I built a custom home a few years ago.
A few tips: ...
- 240V/30A line to the garage. Who knows, you may get an electric car in the future. ....
230V/30A is not enough. The Tesla Model S already takes 80 amps with dual chargers for fastest charging. Run 100 amp wiring, even if its not hooked up yet to your panel. In the future people will have ever more power hungry electric cars.
I wish I had known how mundane and utterly banal most software development is.
I spend 99% of my time on bug fixes, documentation, configuration management, and writing new code that quite frankly, aside from exact implementation, isn't that much different than code I wrote 10 years ago.
If your job has gotten boring, where only 1% is interesting, try to do something different. I was bored at my job at "big company" and was fortunate enough to move on to a startup, where I'm making the same salary, but learning all kinds of new things. I'd say I'm 50+ percent doing new things. And there's the chance of lots of money through equity. Meanwhile, I'm having fun. And I'm feaking old, starting my 3rd decade of work as a software engineer, so there's hope for you folks whining about how boring and terrible your job is.
On point 2: I've had mostly the same experience, but I'm not sure why that is. Perhaps it's a cliché, but in my experience, men are often more dominant and less concensus-seeking, women tend to listen more and better. Also, if you screw up (in a minor way), a man will give you an earful but they'll forget about it soon after. Women however tend to forgive but not forget. ....
Oh come on, you can't generalize about managers who happen to be women. You only have a very few data points. All these comments are unfair and sexist. Just as if you only had one black person who was your manager then you cannot say "all my white managers were great, but the one black guy was bad". Don't generalize about a group of people. Most people are too aware they can't say things like " of people are bad communicators so they can't be good at a job". Let people be individuals, and don't try to limit them based on your previous experiences.
I am really sorry for your situation and hope you get medical care that you need and your prospects improve. You raise a good question from your terrible circumstances. Why don't lots of people in terrible circumstances turn to crime or destruction out of the unfairness of their situation? I think that most people even in extreme circumstances are mostly just interested in improving things for themselves and their family. Those people living in the terrible despair of the Palestinian refugee camps or Syria today have all the reason and justification in the world to be terrorists but most of them are not.
There's nothing immoral about tax avoidance. Tax evasion, maybe.
The law has simply changed such that past avoidance schemes are no longer legal.
I used to feel that way, but I think it's all part and partial of the way that the US is destroying itself, by ending campaign donation limits, making corporations almost people, legalizing hiding who donates to candidates, and the legal way that corporations and rich people give money through lobbyists and get tax breaks that benefit only them. It's wrong. I'm not against big companies, I was fortunate to work at two of the largest software companies in the world, both mentioned up above in this thread. But I do want basic checks on their power. What do you call the use of unchecked power, that hurts the system but might help your own causes, but destroys things otherwise? I call that immoral. It's certainly legal. It's wrong too.
Making up yet another straw man argument doesn't prove your point. Taxes are not 90% of profits in general - they are much smaller. If taxes were somehow fixed and happened to be close to the amount of profits, and there was price elasticity, then prices would probably go up so the business would be able to show a profit. But that's not the situation. Amazon is happy to have no profit as long as the business is growing. A better example is microsoft or google - they make tons of profit, and taxes are far below the profit. They easily and legally (but immorally) avoid taxes through the standard tax cheats, like the irish and netherlands tax dodges. They won't raise prices if they stood to make a little bit less profit.
People should be in open relationships. It's the only rational thing to do.
How about your cousins who live on the bad side of town? Or too bad for the kid whose dad wasn't as smart as you and had a car wreck on the way home from his second min. wage job? It's screw them because that is not me?
How about your cousins who live on the bad side of town? Too bad for the kid whose dad wasn't as smart as you? It's screw them because that is not me?
what could improve spark? where does it suck?
Not if you have an in-house legal department.
The settlement could well be because Apple fears what might come out in the discovery phase.
Non competes almost always don't apply in California. If they moved those employees to California, wouldn't that mean the non-comp end? Non-competes are only good for companies. They should be ended. Did you know that as a matter of policy, lawyers aren't subject to noncompetes.
And socialism causes SOO much good. Yeah to governments telling everyone what to do and putting you in jail (or killing you) if you disagree. People (companies) free do what they want. BAD People with guns and the weight of the "law" (government) free to do what they want. GOOD.
What you are describing is more totalitarianism. Socialism is laws saying things like "you can't fire someone just because they are pregnant", or "you can't refuse to serve people because they are black", and crazy things like everyone should have access to health care. If you can't accept those things, you are naive, ignorant, confused. How about access to education? Is that only for rich people?
Where is the socialism you are thinking of that requires you to pay certain amounts for certain jobs? You aren't thinking of minimum wage laws in the US, I'm sure. You are not thinking of Europe, because they don't have minimal pay rules other than kind of minimum wages. They don't have laws about making too much money. Russia, China? I think they have even fewer rules there.
That seems like terrible advice, there are too many lawyers already, law schools are getting sued by students who can't get jobs. However, where do you live that there are no jobs for devs? Please just move to seattle and get a job. interns make 75k here!