> from which they can afford to pay the devs 3x more doesn't actually mean they create 3x more value. If these two companies are of equal sizings, or if we can

> from which they can afford to pay the devs 3x more doesn't actually mean they create 3x more value. If these two companies are of equal sizings, or if we can find a ratio/cost per engineer/etc that we can say is "equal enough", and we say that Company A makes 3x what Company B makes using this metric, wouldn't it be right to say that Company A's employees produce 3x the profit of Company B? Given, Company A has a stronghold on the market, government handouts, etc, that are _causing the 3x profit increase_. I for sure agree with that. But, at the end of the day, isn't the employee, the ones producing the output, generating output worth more than Company B?