The vast majority of applicants can not get into those prestigious companies, and to be frank - if you can get two remote CRUD jobs that pay a total of $300k -

The vast majority of applicants can not get into those prestigious companies, and to be frank - if you can get two remote CRUD jobs that pay a total of $300k - that's probably 3-5 times higher pay than the average "normal" physical job in their area. I get that this is HN and a very SF-centric board, but sometimes users here are so incredibly out of touch with the real world, it's not even funny anymore. I'm not attacking you directly, but it's something you see here all the time ("why not just join google and become a principal engineer")