This so much. The hacking and coding doesnt matter, nobody really needs a 10x engineer. Well capitalized startups can just go hire 5 more engineers if they need to. I wish when i was younger i could have just accepted this

Do you prefer meetings or solving problems? Pretty sure I’d jump off a bridge after 2 weeks of meetings

I'm talking about maximizing my dollar per mental processing unit ratio. I think that's kind of the gist of what being smart is in this thread. Get more money, reduce mental overhead, or both.

"I'm so much smarter than them."

"Well they have a yacht and 3 homes."

Who used their smartness better?

Why are you equating being smart with being rich? Those two are not the same

Because SV bubble devs already in the 1% making a shit ton of money, whining about being smarter than the C levels making 10x their salary is hilarious to me.