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There is literally a part of labor economics that studies these issues: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential tl;dr people get paid more for doing
by smallnamespace 9y ago
There is literally a part of labor economics that studies these issues: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensating_differential
tl;dr people get paid more for doing unpleasant things, and take pay cuts for jobs that people like
- vanderZwan 9y agoWhat that wiki page is missing is a discussion of actual desirability, and perceived desirability of a job (I'm sure actual academic discussions of the theory do include it). Because game development seems objectively more unpleasant than some of the other programming jobs. It certainly seems more unpleasant than my work situation, and with worse pay.
- microcolonel 9y agoMarkets are subjective, not objective. Measures of objective goodness have absolutely no place in market phenomena. If you want more objective markets, you will have to influence the actors through a side channel (and you have to be actually right, not just think you're right!).