So, when a team of 12 delivers a product that makes X amount of money, we say to ourselves, "Each individual on this team has an output of X/12 ? That's silly.

So, when a team of 12 delivers a product that makes X amount of money, we say to ourselves, "Each individual on this team has an output of X/12 ? That's silly. Also, your comment, "Why, by performance of course." What does that even mean? Would love to hear more detail about how you would measure productivity and output of a programmer. Because there are millions of managers around the world who have yet to figure it out.