We're competing with $15/hr labor. Businesses are happy to hire developers who deliver 6.4MB login pages quickly, until their customers start to complain. I'm

We're competing with $15/hr labor. Businesses are happy to hire developers who deliver 6.4MB login pages quickly, until their customers start to complain. I'm all about caring and using resources efficiently, and in a sense that's how we get such inefficient tech even though it's not what I mean. Money defines efficiency, and we're getting heavy apps for pretty cheap while lighter apps are more expensive in terms of specialized labor costs. If engineers with this right attitude collectively work for rates competitive with global head shops and still deliver as quickly then we can have our light weight app cake and eat it too. I'm personally selling my services for $15/hr already, and anyone who hires me will get a pretty well engineered solution with minimal dependencies; who's with me?