>It is 2015, and TV is still around and profiting nicely. Or, are you living in 2030 Not where I live it's not. >May I ask how many years of real world experi

>It is 2015, and TV is still around and profiting nicely. Or, are you living in 2030 Not where I live it's not. >May I ask how many years of real world experience running a business you have under your belt? Do you really believe that none of the non-engineering google employees contribute to the profit? Do you really believe all Google employees contribute equally? All the Google Plus employees create negative value; Paying them $200K guarantees someone gets LESS than they could have been paid -- and that assumes google actually gives in and pays everyone the maximum they can, which is unlikely cause they have cheaper talent pools to draw on. They pay less in London than they do in Mountain View. All ventures are a gamble. But all the losing gambles need to be made in order to find the successful one. Therefore the profits need to be split evenly. Additionally google engineers can move between projects. >Yes, but as a software engineer you are part of the 1%, not the 99% (literally - the "1%" Occupy talks about are actually the 0.01%). If the real 99% applied the same rule, you effectively get communism. <s>And that worked very well as an incentive for talented people</s> 90k average sw salary in america is at the 95%-tile. Please note that the 1% control half of the worlds' wealth. Also, who says we need communism? I'm still talking about capitalism just with a greater balance of power. > The unions already exist; joining them is as simple as declaring "I want to join" and paying a small percentage of your salary (1%-2%, I think) as union fees; There are, in fact, multiple competing unions. And yet, over 90% of software engineers are not union members If there was a union that negotiated 200k. Over 90% of those engineers would join. You guys just aren't desperate enough to form one.