Software engineers earning enough to achieve financial independence are generally employed by FAANG or (indirectly) by venture capitalists who have more money t

Software engineers earning enough to achieve financial independence are generally employed by FAANG or (indirectly) by venture capitalists who have more money than they know what to do with. With all this money sloshing around, it takes only a little imagination to think of ways of channeling some of it to working people without employing them to write pointless (or in some cases actively harmful) software.