[mcny]

> How does that pay the bills? Maybe back in the day, when you could expect to stay at your employer for the whole of your career such tokens of appreciations were meaningful. But nowadays there's no common purpose in the employer-employee relationship, and these things are about as worthless as the medals they used to hand out in the East Bloc.

You're absolutely right that we do not expect to stay with one employer for life. Maybe I misunderstood it but it seems like the point is that because we don't stay with the same employers for our whole lives, the original article equates it to working on a movie or a television show where we credit people. Maybe we can even create some sort of an IMdb as a who's who of software development. It would be so cool, don't you think?