> Good work is still highly valued, it's just that What about the people who don't or can't do good work, though? Your comment is all about better compensatio

> Good work is still highly valued, it's just that What about the people who don't or can't do good work, though? Your comment is all about better compensation for what amount to elite software developers. And elite software developers are already well compensated. Maybe not as well as they should be by your calculus, but still "well" in comparison to the people the grandparent comment was talking about.