> Your pay is basically a measure of "this is how hard it is to replace you" with an adjustment for how bad it would be if you quit and your employer doesn't bo

> Your pay is basically a measure of "this is how hard it is to replace you" with an adjustment for how bad it would be if you quit and your employer doesn't bother to replace you. Your talents, insofar as they are a factor, are only useful to you in figuring out how to do something that is both uncommon and useful. This is striking, the problem seems to be that most of the jobs that engineers are doing are easily replaceable.