Polite disagree on this: there are a lot of ways to structure a trade with the rest of the world for your time and talent. A very important component of this trade will be the price. Price and structure are far, far less dependent than many smart people believe them to be.https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1097743352315797505 …
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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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If what you're pursuing is satisfaction, the wall street lens is not the right instrument. The satisfaction might not come from the

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I think I have a utility function which is pretty far from "maximize for the money" but I get substantial mileage out of thinking like Wall Street anyway, including by e.g. "You are asking me to tradeoff X for Y; let's get concrete on consequences, timelines, and scenarios."
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