<i>Ideally, developers would be rewarded based on the amount of value they provide to a business. It’s a simple concept: you make the company more money, the company pays you more money.</i><p>That sounds like an assertion that needs to be justified. <i>Why</i> is that the ideal?<p><i>100 products, 100 lines of code! </i><p><i>If you paid your developers per line of code, you would reward the inefficient developers.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_unrolling" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_unrolling</a><p><i>An analogy to this is writing essays, novels, blog posts, etc. Would you judge a writer solely on the number of words written? Probably not.</i><p>That's exactly how a lot of professional writers are paid.