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by mengine 5002 days ago
If you are talking strictly about money, the majority have figured out how to trade their value for something other than an hourly wage/salary. You can only make so much money by trading your time for it.

Typical Engineer: 2000 work hours/year * $50/hour = 100k/Year

John Carmack: 1.7 million copies of Quake * $1 profit = 1.7 Million/Year

Jeff Dean: # of Google shares * $756 = $?