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Technology allows people to be much more productive than the mean and the weight of most productivity is naturally skewed toward a small minority. This is not
by iwwr 16y ago
Technology allows people to be much more productive than the mean and the weight of most productivity is naturally skewed toward a small minority.
This is not an injustice. A top programmer will be many times more productive than an average programmer and large codebases tend to include code from top programmers preferentially. Not only that, the value generated by top programmers (or project leader) is vastly more than that of an average programmer. This is why Google is paying their top people (technical, administrative) millions of dollars.
Compare that to a stone age hunter, who may have been 2-3 times more effective than an average hunter. A strong or a fast man is never much stronger or faster than an average man.
- jacoblyles 16y ago>"This is not an injustice" Others think differential returns to people of differential abilities is an injustice (or at least, the existence of differential ability in the first place). The fact that you don't just means your not a leftist. It's an a priori assumption either way.
- jonhendry 16y ago"This is not an injustice." Paris Hilton. Among other examples. Yes, there are people who get large paydays because they are strikingly effective at what they do. Then there are the people who get large paydays for no particular reason. Or because of their parentage. Before celebrating the übermensch, please try checking back in with reality.
- natrius 16y agoSorry, Paris Hilton being rich is not an injustice. She's rich because people (particularly her parents) wanted to give her money. Trying to prevent that sounds like an injustice to me.
- krschultz 16y agoA good stone age hunter may have been able to survive in situations that a bad stone age hunter couldn't have. Frankly that's worth a whole lot more than being able to program better and I hope he got paid accordingly.