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Because you can achieve high proficiency rather quickly. Contrast this with engineers who optimize compliers who need much deeper and broader knowledge to make
by blahi 10y ago
Because you can achieve high proficiency rather quickly. Contrast this with engineers who optimize compliers who need much deeper and broader knowledge to make decisions in their day to day work, yet have the same comp. How is this fair? Again, it's a market and it is what it is.
- usaphp 10y agoI think there is a flaw in your logic here. You are saying "you can achieve high proficiency rather quickly", but at the same time you are saying that "it's market and it's what it is". Since it's a market - it means there is a high demand in those "JavaScript engineers", and if it's so easy to become proficient then what prevents those "engineers who optimize compilers" to become proficient in JavaScript and compete in that market? Maybe it's not that easy to become somebody who can manage to bring enough value by "just" being a "JavaScript engeneer" for whom employees can pay 100k+ wages?
- ksk 10y ago>and if it's so easy to become proficient then what prevents those "engineers who optimize compilers" to become proficient in JavaScript and compete in that market? Because money is not the only motivator for someone to work. And besides that, from a macro perspective the "free market" is simplistic propaganda. I don't know why people keep bringing it up. Nothing in the real world works that way. Real world is messy, arbitrary, impractical and irrational decisions are made every single day by all human beings. Normal human beings don't sit down and try to "optimize" some cost function in their life/work.