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0 pointsKlonoar2y ago0 comments

It is a literal drop in the bucket.

It's like a mattress: you spend enough time on it that it's worth paying the money and moving on.

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ekianjo2y ago

> It is a literal drop in the bucket.

That's a very first world comment

Darmody2y ago

And in some first world countries that still means the 10% of your annual income.

xcv1232y ago

A $2000 USD laptop would depreciate to nothing over five years so that is an expense of only $400 USD per year.

At a moderate $80k USD developer salary, the laptop costs only 0.5% of that. And this is the main tool you depend on to earn an income. For an underpaid junior developer earning $40k it's still only 1% of their income.

10% of an average developer salary is something like $8k per year. What laptop costs $8k per year? That's $40k after five years. Are you confusing a laptop with a new Mercedes or what?

Laptops are a business expense for a developer. This is how you need to think about it.

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KlonoarOP2y ago

Yup. It’s not wrong though.

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