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Re:Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techi... by TimPC on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @11:06AM (#31341050)
It's really not. Start-ups routinely fail to generate value and engineers get hired by such companies all the time. All that is needed is the belief it's possible the value will be higher. The reality doesn't need to match the belief.
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Re:Tech Salaries in 2022: Why the Six Figure Pay Makes Techi... by ubercow13 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:19PM (#31344502)
But then the engineers at the successful company can't capture a significant amount of the value that company makes, because the rest of it has to go back to investors to make up for all the other companies they funded that 'overpaid' engineers and failed.
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