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by username223 2597 days ago
Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a few thousand pro football players in the world, and a few hundred on the top teams. (For comparison, there are 450 players in the NBA.) The tech behemoths each have tens of thousands of employees, so most engineers are a commodity.
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You can't typically replace a 150k/yr engineer with two 75k/yr engineers.