Re: Ambivalence of complexity
People do actually die from software development. It's not obvious causes like getting crushed under a machine, but a sickness of mental anxiety that builds over a few years. There's weight gain, heart attacks, drugs/alcohol abuse, and suicide. Demanding companies will offer an enormous bonus if you can work harder or threaten to fire you if you don't. You're tired, working as many hours in a week as possible, and struggling with a fear that you can't work enough hours to recover from even the slightest mistake. Recent college graduates and H1B Visa employees are especially vulnerable.
Not every software job is this hard, just like not every manual labor job is battling frostbite or heatstroke. Remember that they do exist and people do sometimes need help.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
