You want experts? Try paying them like they're in the top 1% of their field and their work is worth at least 10 times if not 100 times the average salary to man

You want experts? Try paying them like they're in the top 1% of their field and their work is worth at least 10 times if not 100 times the average salary to many employers. Make an effort to actually, you know, compete to get them. The market for programmers is really inefficient for pay. Google has exploited that to the max and succeeded hiring a lot of very talented engineers at rates you pay for average tax accountants and attourneys. Just like the way they exploited Free software licensing by expempting themselves from the publish part by distributing access to the software not the software itself. That's their two best tricks right there. Where they crossed the line massively is when they engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Apple et al to act in a cartel keep those wages down. This in addition to all the other legal ways they try pushing the market down when it really should be a sellers market. Andrew Moreton paid less than a football player of similar standing? How about 2 orders of magnitude less.