> and the lower wages reflect the lower marginal utility to society for engineers to work in games over other kinds of software. That's not what it reflects. I

> and the lower wages reflect the lower marginal utility to society for engineers to work in games over other kinds of software. That's not what it reflects. It reflects the monetary value that it takes to get someome to do work for you. In games, it takes less money because people want to work on games. To get me to work on your advertising plaform you would have to pay me a ridiculous sum, because I don't want to work on an advertising platform. Companies pay people as much as it costs to get them to work, not an amount reflecting the value they provided to the company. Sometimes those values line up, but usually when profits go up salaries don't linearly follow along, so it's clearly not the latter.