When I see an ad for superrockstarninja coders I can't rid myself of the image that they want to pay salary in ThinkGeek trinkets instead of dollars. The peopl

When I see an ad for superrockstarninja coders I can't rid myself of the image that they want to pay salary in ThinkGeek trinkets instead of dollars. The people whose technical abilities I admire the most uniformly are or would be appalled by such pandering. They [do, would] want to be paid fairly, listened to when they offer advice or make a judgement call about something they've been asked to do, and left to their own lives when not working. This correlates poorly with the typical corporate arrangement wherein people are hired as cheaply as possible, for a role as an unquestioning code grinder (we've already got the ideas here, thankyouverymuch), and they try to make up for it with beads and baubles. I'd love to hear how these ads work for companies, though.