2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves. I'm a hacker. I work at a company that employs sales people, marketers

2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves. I'm a hacker. I work at a company that employs sales people, marketers, and support staff. The software I work on makes my company money--far more than my salary. Without sales, marketing, and support, however, that software would generate no revenue at all. I could quit my job and go into business myself making the same software. Now I need to do my own sales, marketing, and support, none of which I'm any good at, and I have no time to work on development. Working for a company makes me significantly more productive than working for myself, because I can specialize in the things I'm good at. This doesn't mean that I might not do better financially by going into business for myself. I absolutely, positively would not do better technical work, since I'd be constantly distracted by non-technical tasks.