> Coding the infrastructure that powers Amazon's store probably produces more economic value than learning how to play guitar, that is just the reality of the s

> Coding the infrastructure that powers Amazon's store probably produces more economic value than learning how to play guitar, that is just the reality of the situation. This may be correct but I feel like there’s an incorrect assumption that producing economic value leads to receiving economic compensation. The amount you’re paid for your output doesn’t directly correlate to the amount of output, it correlates to how well you can hold that output hostage in exchange for money. A professional open-source developer on a major project like flask almost certainly produces way more value than a Google Junior engineer but still probably doesn’t get paid as much. I’d say the same goes for many guitarists