Comment by benreesman
2 years ago
It grinds my gears when people on a hacker forum lobby for hackers to make less.
When it’s people who are running a worldwide communications network on the cheap without getting hacked all the time? Absolute pros.
I don’t downvote, let alone flag, but I hate this comment.
Well I don’t get paid to hack, it’s a hobby and sometimes I’m and entrepreneur so I don’t have the same bias as thinking all devs should be making $500k+. I actually think of cost controls and how to build more with less, so kind of polar opposite motives.
Cheap is also a relative concept. I have a guy on full time that I pay $1500 a month. It’s more than twice than he’s ever made in his life and he’s an excellent dev. If I needed to, I could find 50 more like him. Sure if I was FAANG scale trying to hire 30,000 of these people it might get tough. But, I could probably create an entire training program and just apprentice people for less than they paid new grads out of 2-4 schools they normally hire from.
Silicon Valley is not the only place to find engineers who know what they're doing. Some of us want to stay in our home country and/or don't want to jump through the hoops that American tech companies demand.
Think from the perspective of the non profit. $19m/year is a lot of money to raise year after year from donations.
What’s the game plan if the donations stops coming in ?
Or they lobby for more hackers to make more, which can happen with a change in location with an overall reduction in budget