> And those that master more difficult technology make more than those that those master easy technology. If anything, I think this part is probably backwards.

> And those that master more difficult technology make more than those that those master easy technology. If anything, I think this part is probably backwards. The market does not reward you on the basis of how difficult the technology you mastered was, but on how marketable it is. The most marketable technology-related skills are not technologically very complex, but involve coupling fairly basic technology with good sales and product/market fit skills. Having ungodly levels of technical skill produces a Sun Microsystems: great technology (ZFS, DTrace, Zones, etc.), but out of business. Having relatively poor levels of technical skill but a good product idea produces Facebook or Groupon.