"Here in Silicon Valley, everyone talks a lot about hiring 'rock stars.' Sometimes that’s just a company’s way of saying, 'I want to hire a really good 25-year-old and not have to pay them that much'" https://forge.medium.com/how-do-i-manage-a-just-ok-performer-408ae35521fb …
Also borrowing a term from the music industry, the industry that was one of the first to be thrown under the bus as far as the ability of people to make a respectable income by you know, doing work.
