So Prime Minister can kill people for no punishment? Great developers have high salary, all other benefits are equal.

Yeah, unfortunately the high salary is still not proportional to abilities. You get maybe 30 or 40% more for being 2 to 3x as useful (we'll forget about the mythical 10x-ers for now.)

Does this seem fair?

This has always perplexed me. You could hire a junior on say 10,000 credits who could produce 10 units of work per week. You could then hire someone more experienced, on 25,000 credits, but they could produce 50 units of work per week. You could then hire seniors and pay them 40,000 credits, but they're producing 200 units of work per week.

Why is it fair to increase the wage so slowly? Either less experienced developers are not worth the money to begin with or someone, somewhere has an idea of what the max cap of a developer is, and sticks to it.

It is really hard to measure developers productivity and nobody knows how to do that with a good precision. But in general I agree that top developers should be paid good money, like 2 times less then CEO.

No, but he may get off the hook wrt/ a speeding ticket.

Equating 20% time to murder seems like a bit of an overreaction. Do you do that often?

Anyway, you're asking a room full of developers what they would want and they're telling you. 20% time is a solution that works. Toiling away on the same problem day after day sucks and it gets boring. 20% time breaks up the drudgery.

I suspect that you don't want to solve the developer's problems though, just your own.

I agree, I overreacted. We had 20% rules for few years with mixed results, but put this practice on hold till Summer. Maybe we will not see such problems when it will be back.

I hope for the best for you with this. In my experience, the mixed results are part of the process. Think of it more as R&D costs rather than "loss" per se, and it may be easier for you (and your investors) to think about.

Management is hard. We're all learners when it comes to working with people, especially when some of the people are smarter than we are. Keep learning!

> You kind of sound like a dick

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