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I agree wholeheartedly. That's how I promote my consulting biz, "More money for your business." It is amazing how devs think that dollar value should equal ef

I agree wholeheartedly. That's how I promote my consulting biz, "More money for your business." It is amazing how devs think that dollar value should equal effort. It does not. And this doesn't just apply to software. It applies to anything and everything. The value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it in that one split second when they click "charge my card".

jamesbritt 15y ago
It is amazing how devs think that dollar value should equal effort. It does not. I think most consultants and contractors reach a point where this clicks. At first they think, well this will take me X hours, so it's worth Y dollars. Later they think, this is apparently worth X dollars to the client, so I'll bill Y dollars, where Y is way closer to X than any how-long-it-takes calculation. It's the difference between "hard work should be rewarded" and "value should be rewarded."