Orders of magnitude are typically in log 10, 2^2 being 4 is in the same order of magnitude.

The national average wage for the USA is roughly 70k according to a quick Google search, unless you’re suggesting the devs are making $4.9 billion per year I think you’re not using exponents correctly.

I said "likely on a wage x^2 their national average"

It looks like there's a lot of assumption on X. Trolling a bit because you know, SV folk.

Please don’t troll here.

If there is something that x is referring to that is not wage, then please enlighten us because I honestly cannot read it as any other way.

There are no realistic values of x for x^2 that work with this argument.

I'm not trolling. My basic point was that people in SV make orders of magnitude more money than the average person. But if we want to be pedantic, you don't know X so you can't refute.

If OP wants to say I don't know what exponents are, that's on them. The whole thing stands.

@macmcirish fair enough, I meant in context to the reply.

Folk can be pedantic about numbers and take the mick out the average intellect of the average HN user I suppose. I'm not on the spectrum so not especially retentive to those minor points.

The main point was that a lot of these employees were on very large sums of money, and in control of the information flow across the web. It's a centralised platform. Anyways, doubt it's worth making the point any more.

Your last comment literally says you were “trolling a bit”.

I don’t think you’re having this conversation in good faith and I’m going to stop interacting because of it.

> What I get from this whole experience is big tech employees, likely on a wage x^2 their national average

> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median wage for workers in the United States in the second quarter of 2022 was about $1,041 per week or $54,132 per year

Which puts your estimate of the average silicon valley wage at $2,930,273,424 per year.

What is X in this example?

:) or what nation.