Comment by greenavocado
1 year ago
Yes, I pay people do to work on difficult and annoying computer systems. Nobody would want to do this job for free.
1 year ago
Yes, I pay people do to work on difficult and annoying computer systems. Nobody would want to do this job for free.
Yes, rodger that, wealth is irrelevant to money - a concept plenty of people grok with time.
Your logic appears poor to me: perhaps that is why you employ logicians - money is your solution? Money doesn't write software, people do. People's motivations are crazy complex: which causes good or bad software to be created.
> Nobody
Somebody: My guest today was working for $0 on two systems (one maintenance, one he is developing). Both were difficult and annoying computer systems with a complex userbase. He didn't seem to really want to do the job: yet he was doing it for free (well, actually it was costing him)! Why does he need money if he gets his needs met by friends and acquantances. His only payment appears to be friendship and good company and his internal satisfaction (for varied reasons). I don't understand his motivations but yesterday he had said that offering him money would strongly demotivate him. Illogical?
Perhaps your philosophical world view has little overlap with mine. I have retired early so that is a signal that my world view is different from most people's. I haven't recently needed to buy development time so maybe my opinions are stale.