> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn [...] are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make th

> What I find truly bizarre is how many software engineers, who are aware of how much they earn [...] are so resistant to paying anything for tools that make their job easier and faster. It blows my mind. The property premise that software engineers earn so much clearly holds for the USA (and some other countries), but there are a lot of countries where it is not true.