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> People should get paid to create things, and get paid what the work is worth.

This is literally how it works today though. No one is intentionally paying employees more than they have to, and if they pay less than they have to, they lose employees.

Basically this is just an anticapitalist rant. Not useful even if one agrees with the premise.

> And “you can eventually move to the Midwest” isn’t really a sales point (I’ve been told this by multiple managers/directors).

Why is it not? I have a number of friends that have done this: work in SF, make (literal) millions of dollars over the course of ~10 years, move to the Midwest with their new/growing family — and a nest egg it might take ~30 years to accumulate anywhere else. They seem pretty happy about it.

Exactly. If you are capable enough to file useful tickets you are capable enough to read the code, run it locally, test out changes, tweak copy, etc.

You are wasting money paying people to write tickets and not read code.