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> That these folks hit the jackpot is great for them but quite senseless from the perspective of "you get rewarded for your efforts" perspective. How is that s
by ctvo 2y ago
> That these folks hit the jackpot is great for them but quite senseless from the perspective of "you get rewarded for your efforts" perspective.
How is that senseless? Their efforts, in whatever way, contributed to the massive increase in the sale of the GPUs, right? And they were awarded for it.
If it wasn't Nvidia, but a start-up that was grinding for 10 years before they did well (eg Figma) would you feel the same way? Dig into that.
- SilverBirch 2y agoThe point is that the rewards are clear and enormous, but the actual responsibility is way more diffuse. There will be plenty of people working at Nvidia who were less competent and less hard working than the person doing an almost identical job at ARM or AMD or Intel. But their reward will likely be 2-10x what those other people get. The aggregate system seems to be efficient - capitalism has done a fairly good job at creating a successful innovative business environment, but the way it does that is just wild rewards predominantly for people who were in the right place at the right time. There are people who are at Nvidia who are genuinely responsible for the great stuff that Nvidia has done in the last few years. But they're going to be a minority of the people who get rewarded.
- Jlagreen 2y ago[dead]