3 ms·
You're now making a tangential argument about whether people are being paid their worth and frankly that's never been the case. Most of us developers, devops a
by hnlmorg 5y ago
You're now making a tangential argument about whether people are being paid their worth and frankly that's never been the case.
Most of us developers, devops and sysadmins are paid an obscene wage compared to many critical services like nursing. Is it fair? Probably not. But that doesn't have any baring on the complexity of Linux vs Firefox.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoPrices are determined by supply and demand, so there is no merit in claiming a person writing software has an obscene earnings compared to a nurse. Not to mention that you can get into all kinds of nonsense like “the team of software developers made something that saved millions of man hours enabling nurses to help many more patients”. But that is neither here nor there. However, you can compare the people in the same business, such as those writing software for operating systems and web browsers and compare the cost and productivity in both.