[tobbe2064]

Your math is pretty bad 50$/h is a yearly cost of going by swedish standards, 50$/h × 40h/week × 48 weeks / year = 96k$/year At that rate is a really shitty bargin for 30% increase in productivity. Even if you drop it to 20$/h and sort of break even, you are loosing competens building and teory building, decreasing the likeleyhood of making architectual progress and risk getting bogged down in a swamp.

[joshjob42]

An employee often costs a company 2-3x their salary, so someone making 100k a year, costing 300k/yr, who is made 33% more productive (100k more worth of work to the company) offsets the compute cost.