You are getting an awful amount of downvotes for a would be hackers and painters forum. Your statement is true, but crabs would rather you get back in the bucket.
You don't have to be a YC member, but I'd go so far as saying HN is startup-hostile nowadays. Remember the indie hacker making $45k a month recently getting torn down for his work?
Too many fixed mindset types around here, thinking that chasing jira tickets is the type of problem solving that matters or that plumbing apis is puzzle solving. Forum might just as well replace hacker with worker and call it worker news. The only types of problems some want solving is how to increase taxes on those that solve actual problems and how to release yet another ai to leech off of other people's hard work. All while being ordered to return to offices like herds to a barn. Nothing hacky about it frankly.
100%. Mostly wagies crunching through JIRA tickets and earning a comfy enough salary with strong opinions on how business works, having never done anything close to it.
Nothing else.
Not the other parts of a functioning business - marketing, client relations, public relation, finance, business strategy, etc.
That’s a pretty absurd assumption.
And think of it this way. Google revenue is $1.5M per employee. Profit is 24%.
That’s $360k of profit per employee (yeah I know costs include employee wages, but bear with me).
Seems like ultra-elite-10x coders who make $400k+ are skimming a pretty respectable chunk of the returns, no?