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Ask HN: Is getting highly paid salaries as programmers a bug?

10 pointsby jerawaj749about 1 year ago

7 comments

keikobadthebadabout 1 year ago
Maybe if you get highly paid. If I get highly paid, that&#x27;s definitely a feature.<p>Some companies use it as a field-salting strategy to deny a resource needed to enter a business to competitors.<p>And they sit there getting highly-paid to get scrummed and go through Jiras.
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sagasu007about 1 year ago
Yes, because programmers are the cornerstone of the Internet. More money attracts better people to build better things. Imagine if the per capita salary was $10, what kind of people could you attract?
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al_borlandabout 1 year ago
Facebook bought Instagram for $1B with only 13 employees. I can’t think of many other professions where 13 people can scale a company to a $1b valuation.
roland35about 1 year ago
No??? Turns out that being able to make things that people want&#x2F;need is a valuable skill. And it&#x27;s even more valuable when it can scale.
b20000about 1 year ago
what a bizarre question<p>highly paid is meaningless without taking into account cost of living<p>and engineers are not the highest paid people
worddepressabout 1 year ago
Who says they are high paid?
iExploderabout 1 year ago
its a feature of modern day corpo-capitalism. turns out processing data from billions of users and serving them subconsciousness influencing adds back in a modern day post capitalist techno widget factory requires skills that are in short supply... that is until LLMs make this shareholder&#x27;s wet dream come true at a fraction of the price. huzzah!