[najirama]

"...here on HN, where one of our core assumptions is..."

Who comprises this 'our' that you so easily reference, and what matter is their assumptions to the actual truth of the OP's thesis?

Cringe-inducing groupthink, in excelsis. Careful you don't lose yourself in pursuit of community.

[calibraxis]

Yes, personally while reading the comments, I sometimes just think "This person is using conventional pro-capitalist arguments" and move on. Similar thoughts might occur if I were reading technical communications as a mathematician in Soviet Russia, a developer of early computers for the US government, or engineer of weapons systems under feudalism.

That doesn't necessarily mean I reject those arguments; but it doesn't mean I accept them either. Given the state of the world, it makes sense that the ideology here reflects the capitalist, masculine perspectives in the Californian software industry.

[gaius]

Really? The onus here is on you to show there is a case for hours or lines of code to set pay, not the value of the end product. Go on, link me to some comments of people advocating that. Or you will have to accept that this really is a common belief.