That's what I think as well. Why are they motivated to do this though CT? I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Labour costs are tiny fractions of th

That's what I think as well. Why are they motivated to do this though CT? I feel like I'm missing a piece of the puzzle. Labour costs are tiny fractions of these company's profits, and code stays 'fresh' for decades. You can easily get leaps in productivity that save a huge quantity of money for the company by just thinking a little harder. And it should be the case that smaller teams are better teams. Why do programmers even make wages similar to the middle class? Their work isn't remotely comparable to lawyers or dentists. Surely million dollar salaries should be the norm. The practice of acquhires suggest a starting salary ought to be around 1.5 million dollars. Even if it was one tenth of that...