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Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook by jhowell on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:42AM (#25287288)
> We’re engineers, not royalty. There’s nothing any one of us could do that would justify these wages, if it wasn’t for US immigration policies causing an artificial supply/demand issue.

Executives, CEOs and shareholders are all highly compensated for their risk in both time and money and are not "royalty." I would argue that being royal implies birth as an unjustifiably paid skill.

Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook by kuschku on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:22PM (#25292448)
> Executives, CEOs and shareholders are all highly compensated for their risk in both time and money

That too is wrong. Paying wages based on supply/demand instead of based on the value an employee actually provides leads to exactly this kind of heavily distorted labor markets.

Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook by exged on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:55AM (#25299459)
FB generates around $2 million in annual revenue and $600k in net income per employee (not just engineers). If the only thing you consider is value generated by each employee, then FB should be paying far more. Maybe 400k for a new grad and 1M for a senior engineer?
Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook by quickthrower2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:29PM (#25294321)
Well how do you define value? Is it workers should get enough for a modest life, a fair pay for a fair days work, the rest goes to shareholders?