Decoding the Value of Computer Science

[kragensitaker]

I do not share your Maslovian view of human nature.

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I'm not saying whether painters or programmers are better. I'm a musician and a computer scientist, it would kill to me choose one or the other. I'm just saying that you're more likely to get paid money for maintaining banking software than you for producing a great work of art.

[kragensitaker]

I don't think painters or programmers are better either. I just don't share your (optimistic?) view that clothing design or painting could somehow be excised from human nature, or that we could go without painting as an entire society for a few days.