> It is quite bizarre how us programmers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, are unwilling to pay $1,400 that will make us more productive. No

> It is quite bizarre how us programmers, who make hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, are unwilling to pay $1,400 that will make us more productive. Not all of us. Here in Latvia that amount would be around a half of one's salary, quite likely more than that. The further you move in the direction of poorer countries, the less the argument of "developers are expensive, everything else is cheap" actually holds. I don't doubt that in some places a single decent AWS EC2 instance would be a developer's salary.