Yeah, it's an idiotic, 1-dimensional proposition in a game of n-dimensional chess. Tech employees are competition for a company's profit after all the other com

Yeah, it's an idiotic, 1-dimensional proposition in a game of n-dimensional chess. Tech employees are competition for a company's profit after all the other companies trying to commoditize their complements (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v). Starting with AWS. Treating programmers as cost centers was precisely what hindered the previous generation of companies in competing with tech. There may well come a time when a company can compete for gross margins without competing for tech employees. But it'll require a case more rigorous than this blog post.