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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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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Could you give some examples of this please?
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You don't have to get an MBA to phrase your request for more money in a way which is legible to MBAs. You don't have to measure your productive output primarily by IRR to be able to highlight a case for IRR to potential investors. etc, etc
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