in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king How much time can a man invest in learning a really complex stuff so he can work on compilers, creating progr

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king How much time can a man invest in learning a really complex stuff so he can work on compilers, creating programming languages or implementing extraordinary search algorithms. And who will pay for that ? That is the downside of capitalism. Just take a look at what happened to Oracle when the most brilliant engineers left after they acquired Sun Microsystems. They literally could not find anyone for ages to replace these people just because there is not enough talent out there. And that's Oracle. Who else is there that can afford to pay these people ? Google ? Maybe. Netflix ? aye IBM ? likely And maybe few dozens of other corporations. But these people do not want to work for corporations instead they need to be treated as special unicorns.