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Companies broadly will glass ceiling pay for employees who don’t go into higher management roles (exceptions like acquihires exist). So yeah keep adding value but they won’t pay a million a year as a developer. Even if you came up with ideas and executed them and made them millions. It is a commodity market in general.

In this sense you get paid well but they want you to think how to make the shareholders rich (which might be the employee if their lucky but that shareholding or option is rarely contingent on performance but on staying employed until vesting at most)

On the other hand employment is cushy in that you just get paid in less than 30 days and don’t need to think about a bunch of business stuff like marketing or contract negotiations so hence why it is popular.

Should companies be allowed to have other customers? Should they reduce their prices to cover costs to get to a standardized “market rate” profit for a company. I guess like a co-op.




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