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Also, real wages are declining. After a point, working harder to make the c suite and Wall Street richer begins to seem pointless.

• illinator 11y ago
  My old boss said, "Million dollar ideas don't come for free." I stopped giving mine away. If the business thinks it needs to funnel money up and away, hire product people who take the credit, then why should I as an engineer care? I am sad to say I care more about my coworkers and learning abstract concepts than the business model because I feel I have been cut out of it.
  • HappyTypist 11y ago
    That's a symptom of division between product and engineering and zero sum mentality. Get rid of that and you have happier and more productive employees.
    • carsongross 11y ago
      That's certainly one pretty-sounding possibility. Another is that it is a zero sum game, or, more likely, somewhere between that and a 1-for-1 game where the product manager and above realizes most of the gains.