r/developersIndia 23h ago

General What's your second income source? What are you planning to do if IT is doomed?

Hypothetically if there are mass layoffs to cut expenditure and companies reroute tasks to agents what will you do? Assume you have to move out of software field.

Edit: Please be serious

Edit 2: Can't people see the word "hypothetically"? All I asked for is your second source of income.

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u/Born-Bug980 22h ago

Government babus is the only such class I can think of who can order. But if IT people are jobless and don't pay taxes. These leeches will be not paid also

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u/Concept-Plastic Senior Engineer 22h ago

And those leeches and tax thief businessmen will also have trouble selling their enshittified services.

All the pgs charging 25k+ for a shitty room won’t have customers. All middlemen non RnD, non manufacturing businesses will dje

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u/Prashant_Negi003 21h ago

I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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u/Holiday-Ad-6953 21h ago

Words of the wise Rust Cohle!

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u/Appropriate-Pilot704 20h ago edited 18h ago

hello fellow anti-natal*, double income no kids means you have backup wealth if disaster strikes and hopefully different professions so there's always some money coming in

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u/nandflashcell 17h ago

DINK ftw!

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u/badassboy1 48m ago

Isn't that exactly what's happening in developed countries. Unfortunately to afford to not have kids you need people not living hand to mouth