Re:Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay
by kirse on Saturday November 05, 2022 @05:11PM
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We don't pay people based on how hard they work.
Of course, because effort is only one variable in the formula. Money generally is a trade for the (value * time) someone returns to us. Valuation being affected by effort, risk factors, demand, etc. But fundamentally if a piece of software can return 5 minutes to 100k people/week, whoever designed that software has universally redeemed 18k+ days (50 years) of time to a population of people each year.
Software ultimately juices the time portion of the formula. A SW developer may not have put in the same yearly "effort" as a parent, but that's just not how the money<->time exchange works.
Of course, because effort is only one variable in the formula. Money generally is a trade for the (value * time) someone returns to us. Valuation being affected by effort, risk factors, demand, etc. But fundamentally if a piece of software can return 5 minutes to 100k people/week, whoever designed that software has universally redeemed 18k+ days (50 years) of time to a population of people each year.
Software ultimately juices the time portion of the formula. A SW developer may not have put in the same yearly "effort" as a parent, but that's just not how the money<->time exchange works.