most businesses don't care and don't understand the technicalities of deep nerdy work. they are fine with throwing their money around until a problem is solved

most businesses don't care and don't understand the technicalities of deep nerdy work. they are fine with throwing their money around until a problem is solved. and would much rather hire someone with 1.5x your pay than to give a 10% raise. its just a political / power thing... internal politics and preserving imbalances in distribution of power is much more valuable than adding a little inefficiency to worker output