You benefit from the popularity of the language, not specifically from the people you bring in. In a real pyramid scheme all the people you bring in (and the pe

You benefit from the popularity of the language, not specifically from the people you bring in. In a real pyramid scheme all the people you bring in (and the people they bring in) pay you directly. Nobody else in the scheme helps you, and they may in fact be competing with you for new recruits. You’re also obligated to pass some (or most) of the benefits you receive on to the person who recruited you. With the above hypothetical, you benefit from more programmers in your language regardless of how they got there, even if someone else “recruits” them, or they were there before you got there.