Money doesn't motivate people for highly technical work, in that way. I suppose if by "shower them with money" you mean provide them with best in class tools th

Money doesn't motivate people for highly technical work, in that way. I suppose if by "shower them with money" you mean provide them with best in class tools then yeah, sure, but then best in class tools have to be built by dedicated and caring engineers. If you gave the average staff engineer an $xmillion bonus that wouldn't appreciably increase their work quality.