We can't do Hollywood style compensation because we rely on actually functional computers which are obviously incapable of Hollywood math. More seriously, we n

We can't do Hollywood style compensation because we rely on actually functional computers which are obviously incapable of Hollywood math. More seriously, we need to make sure the entire team is getting the goodies. Even your fairy-tale 1000x developers depend on good ops/infrastructure, support and QA and clever management; if they can only hire on McStaff warm bodies, they're massively hobbling those "ridiculously compensated" devs.