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People write a lot about how much programmers should make. I think there's a couple of sides to the discussion which the author mixes together instead of separ
by Dwolb 11y ago
People write a lot about how much programmers should make. I think there's a couple of sides to the discussion which the author mixes together instead of separating out by stakeholder. (i.e. he discusses opportunity costs for all stakeholders instead of discussing a specific stakeholder then talking about her opportunity cost). Someone could probably come up with a pretty robust framework or model for individual companies and individual programmers and look at how those interactions play out over a repeated game.
But there's a pretty simple rule in a competitive market: prices are set by the next highest bidder.
- gizi 11y agoAll of this assumes that you will work for someone else who will monetize the platform that you build. That's not how you create Google or Facebook valuations. The first rule is that you must decide by yourself what platform to build. Someone without hands-on knowledge of what exactly technology allows to build, cannot do that properly. The second rule is that you must monetize the platform by yourself. If you break these rules, you will never make serious money.