> that is a weird list it is my list, and it is non-exhaustive. > what's take home salary has anything to do with this? you are moving the goalposts. You say

> that is a weird list it is my list, and it is non-exhaustive. > what's take home salary has anything to do with this? you are moving the goalposts. You say that devs are overpaid, therefor time saved need only be a few hours to make back the money. I assert that this isn't universally true (that devs are paid well) and that it must apply to all developers (and everyone developer adjacent) > $1,000 macbook Nobody is using a $1k computer in the west. Not sure what that is meant to signify either. > It's the cost of making business. If you were a hairdresser and you had to pay a new license for every person who touched the chair, then you would have a parable. As it stands we have a lot of per-seat licensing and an SSO tax designed to get the most money from business customers, the result is that a lot of businesses (where dev costs are lower) simply cant (or wont) pay for every little tiny tool- even if it was priced in a reasonable way, because handling the purchasing and buying the license for the seats you need becomes a full time job.