If people you are "managing" are the product and not building the product then I would say maybe you have a point. Additionally, management doesn't bear the bru

If people you are "managing" are the product and not building the product then I would say maybe you have a point. Additionally, management doesn't bear the brunt of the fallout most of the time when they are bad managers or unable to make good technical decisions. So of course programmers given these factors should be paid the same as management.