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That's like saying "It took them five minutes to enter these lines of code. Why are we paying them so much!?!?!?"
by aantix 2y ago
That's like saying "It took them five minutes to enter these lines of code. Why are we paying them so much!?!?!?"
- jfoutz 2y agoWe really did this wrong. We should get paid for every time the lines are run.
- tompccs 2y agoThat's SaaS
- abecedarius 2y agoMore directly, like "it costs, like, a penny to download the software to the client, why do we pay so much?" Marginal cost vs. amortized development. (Making a limited point separate from my general opinions of Big Drug, etc.)
- heavyset_go 2y agoWe can look at what those drugs retail in other countries to see how much price gouging is going on. Turns out it's a lot.
- aantix 2y agoPurchases in the U.S. subsidize those other countries.
- davisr 2y agoIn your example, if it did take a programmer 5 minutes, and they don't have any real accountability anyway (not like a real engineer), then why _are_ we paying them so much?
- Der_Einzige 2y agoSWEs are massively overpaid. News at 11…