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>Did she not put in long hours? Did she not sacrifice her personal life, etc, in a way commensurate with the developers? So why do the developers get paid more
by ef4 13y ago
>Did she not put in long hours? Did she not sacrifice her personal life, etc, in a way commensurate with the developers?
So why do the developers get paid more than other (white male) workers who work longer hours doing harder work? Because "long hours" and "sacrifice" have absolutely nothing to do with what anyone gets paid.
Your pay is not a function of just yourself. It's a function of every other person who could have done your job instead. The more of them there are, and the worse their other alternatives, the lower your wages will be.
- phillmv 13y agoI would just counsel that there are more angles in our relationship to work above and beyond pure supply and demand. You have (employment) market liquidity, you have long standing cultural practices, you have collective action problems, etc. We happen to work in a rapidly growing industry, which is why times are rosy.