> "pay based on value to the business" How is this computed? Since almost no programmers have collective bargaining agreements, in practice this seems to mean

> "pay based on value to the business" How is this computed? Since almost no programmers have collective bargaining agreements, in practice this seems to mean simply "who can negotiate the best". Frankly, I think I'd rather the industry mature enough that we can be interchangeable cogs. Then we wouldn't spend so much time arguing about meaningless trivia like programming languages or coding style.