Comment by tossandthrow

> If they could hire 10 people equally as good for 1/10 the price then they would do so.

I think this is where the misunderstanding is. In this context it is not 10 times as much in salary - where it is already highly improbable that a single person provides 10 times as much value as 10 other highly motivated candidates.

You have to increase by orders of magnitude.

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