[fl3tch]

> after a certain point in increasing your budget for paying software developers, you are limited by your ability to find good people, not by your ability to pay them

Put another way, if 100 people can build a bridge in 3 months, that doesn't mean 1 million people can build a bridge in 13 minutes. Those of us who do science for a living are keenly aware that there's a sweet spot for sample size in any experiment. You want a sample size large enough to give you enough statistical power to validate your hypothesis (if it's true), but beyond that you're wasting money on more mice, or human subjects, or whatever.

For any problem, a certain amount of money / resources will optimize results.

[vacri]

On the other hand, do you really agree with the sentiment of the GP - that foreign aid is already at saturation point?

[fpp]

it is called the functional threshold