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Well, without radically changing the economic system, your compensation will be, at most, the cost of replacing you, and the gap between your compensation and t
by ouid 9y ago
Well, without radically changing the economic system, your compensation will be, at most, the cost of replacing you, and the gap between your compensation and that figure depends on the information gap, and the chutzpah with which you negotiate.
I'd wager that if developers renegotiated their contracts at the point where they were most irreplaceable on projects they would be able to extract a lot more money.
- crdoconnor 9y ago>I'd wager that if developers renegotiated their contracts at the point where they were most irreplaceable on projects I'd wager that most executives would rather pay 5 people to do the job of 2 or even simply bury their head in the sand and not admit to themselves that replacing you is going to be more costly than let you have that kind of leverage.
- ouid 9y agoThreaten to quit and see if you don't get executives offering you more money.
- CoreXtreme 9y agoMost aren't in position of sending threats in the way of their executives.
- taneq 9y agoYou're right. It's critical not to let the troops catch a whiff of their individual importance or you'll have to start paying them closer to their actual value to you... and that's bad for profits.
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