$$ gets you more programmers, not necessarily good ones. Just look at dot com era (if you're old enough to remember). Tons of money, thrown at everybody and a

$$ gets you more programmers, not necessarily good ones. Just look at dot com era (if you're old enough to remember). Tons of money, thrown at everybody and anybody. The vast majority of which were not "good" programmers. Many weren't even programmers just good at faking it, till they made it.