What's really funny is the fabulous mis-translation that babelfish does of Portuguese. If you want a nice joke, translate something from Portuguese to English and then back again, with Altavista. You do need to know Portuguese, though.
Well, this entry is in English just to avoid this type of problem. I'm also inclined to start writing in English, un-patriotic as it may sound. Krzysztof, here's a man-made translation of my previous post:
Huh?I am not making gobs of money. With my income, I couldn't afford to pay a mortgage and still live like I got used to at my parents'... Where is the money giveaway?
On a more serious note: The discussion presented on the blog post is quite interesting. Why is it that computer engineering pays better than, say, high-school teaching? One can assume that pay is a value-function of personal merit. If it reflects personal value for the society-at-large, then one can reason in terms of how does society value people.
And I personally think that our society, basically, values people the same way it values products. Market forces. People try to sell their services at the highest possible price. Companies/individuals try to get the services at the minimum possible price. Market does the rest.
This is profoundly unromantic. Individual value has nothing to do with responsability (like doctors or civil engineers would like), or with power (like MBAs imagine) or even with operational costs (like various artists would love). No. Our value to society is plain-old market-value. Again, this is quite unromantic and cold, but that's the society we've built. It has worked so far...
