On: “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

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> The United States has the best engineers because it pays the best

Nope. There are many counter examples of companies being world leading without paying world leading salaries to their engineers.

It's a big mistake to believe that the only thing all engineers care about is $. Yes it is true for some engineers but not for all.

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It's true for most engineers (most human beings, really) and not by a small margin.