In the often adverserial world of exchanging labour and creativity for money, shares, prestige, and because we programmers care please don't blame us for not be

In the often adverserial world of exchanging labour and creativity for money, shares, prestige, and because we programmers care please don't blame us for not being able to assess how much the business should pay us. Our job is attempt to know our expected potential worth and then negotiate for that recompense. There are things we often don't know, i.e. megacorps may hire us to stop us working elsewhere. If a business chooses to neglect to know this because it is either not worth it to them find out or they are incapable that is not on the worker. This is esentially an attempted value crash or hyperdeflation of the monetary value of labour. This meme of we can do more with hugely vastly less talent is a spreadsheet fancy of MBAs far from the coal face of code or customers. The real cost is all the top talent people bail and only those who can't or won't leave remain. But management think they can properly assess the value of people finessing a process they can't do and little understand and probably are insulated from and only see through metrics to which Goodhart's law means the stats are juked.