If this sounds like a very financier-flavored metaphor it is because having the lens to look at the world like Wall Street is a useful tool instrumentally regardless of your cultural background, goals, job, or aesthetics. (Believe much the same about thinking like a dev, FWIW)
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Also, non-specific observation: you don't have to always join the winning team but it's generally a good idea to be able to articulate what you want in ways which are incentive-compatible for them to, as a result of your suasion, also want what you want.
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Oh back to the original topic: it is underappreciated: * How much line employees get paid at extremely successful companies (e.g. AppAmaGooFaceSoft) * How much companies can spend on consulting, including by solo shops * How appealing relatively small software shops can be
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People tend to come up with a particular background in a particular system which exposes them to none of or very few of these facts, and often the availability heuristic causes them to believe that the other paths functionally don't exist.
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I think this is mostly downstream of differential access to information and understandable quirks of our cultural understandings about careers and money rather than active dissimulation to prevent market conditions from moving against folks' positions, by the way.
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I started a company because it seemed the best way to leverage an extremely specific set of skills I have and so make decent money on my own schedule
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I think there's a good reason for there being a correlation between structure and price. If you have an expected wealth production of $40k/year, you can't take much risk; being an employee shifts risk to others. If you produce $400k/year, you can likely accept more risk.
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It's not that being self-employed results in much higher earnings, but rather that lower earnings result in an avoidance of self employment.
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hehe both your POV and Jeff's fit very nicely on a continuum in my head, and I suspect it may have to do with both of you probably thinking about / focusing on different people. Jeff is likely thinking of annoying IdeaBros of the "sign my non-disclosure form" variety
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I would co-sign Jeff's POV in most contexts *except* when encountering the extreme bleed-over-everybody aching artist type who has zero discipline and just gets people into messes that *they* have to clean up. *That* guy should probably get a job,, amongst other things
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