> Salary has never been about the value you provide. It's about the cost to replace you. Companies will never pay you more than you cost to replace. Those thin

> Salary has never been about the value you provide. It's about the cost to replace you. Companies will never pay you more than you cost to replace. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive. To some extent, the value you bring is whats behind the cost to replace you. And I dont mean in some proportional relationship to revenue or profit or something. I just mean software engineers create more value than someone who can juggle chairs, who is incredibly hard to replace. Of course if there were 4 billion software engineers tomorrow, wages would go down. We agree on that. But business value is a factor.