Comment by mensetmanusman

7 months ago

Based on the productivity gains in the last 50 years, there are certainly engineers worth $100,000,000 that had no idea the impact they were going to have on the world.

We are in a time where the impact can be measured more quickly, so good for the engineers taking advantage of this.

If Linus Torvalds got paid based on his impact on the world he might just be the world's richest man