You are implying that effort should be correlated to pay. It isn't. The hardest job I ever had was being a bartender/barback at a very busy bar - it sure didn't

You are implying that effort should be correlated to pay. It isn't. The hardest job I ever had was being a bartender/barback at a very busy bar - it sure didn't pay much. It's possible that one programmer can bring generate and capture more economic value by doing one "not very complicated thing" that gets pushed to 1 billion instances[0] than a brain surgeon can by doing one extremely complicated thing on a few dozen or hundred people per year. 'curl' is not complicated, but it clearly has incredible economic value, and has an install base of over 1 billion devices. [0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/09/17/the-worlds-biggest-curl-installations/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/09/17/the-worlds-biggest-cu...