Whoops

Graduated from CS with an ENTERPRISE GPA and got pressured by my recruiter to take my first offer literally the day after I put my resume on LinkedIn as a "Product Support Engineer" because it had "potential for a C# developer position." The interviewers shoved the contract in my face as soon as they could and being the autistic shut-in baby I am I meekly took the pen and signed it so they didn't get mad at me.

So the recruiter basically made 10 grand off of me in less than a week (25% of first year salary) and I got a job answering phones to pay off my $50k in student loans.

At least he paid for my $20 lunch, I guess.

those with real intellect

Real power is not within code monkeys, its within the company owners and CEOs that dictate what code monkeys will do for the green paper. You're essentially a modern scribe, replaceable gear in the machine that obeys all whims of the operator.