[InsideOutSanta]

> No, it's just a scam

The analogy you gave supports my argument: if you are easily able to switch between TypeScript and Java, you are more valuable to your employer than somebody who is unable to do that, so you should get paid more.

> when many people worked in factories under terrible conditions

As opposed to now, where many people work in offices under terrible conditions?

[slibhb]

If it was really about paying valued employees more, it would be like 5% or 10%. It's not feasible to pay people 2x-3x every day, so the result is painstakingly scheduling people so they don't meet the criteria for that.

Second, the idea that we should formalize "being a valuable employee" i.e. "learn X skill and get Y raise" is just a bad idea. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". If you pay people more for using more programming languages, you'll end up with frankenstein projects written in dozens of languages.

> As opposed to now, where many people work in offices under terrible conditions?

Ah yes those horrific air-conditioned offices.

[InsideOutSanta]

> It's not feasible to pay people 2x-3x every day

So what you're saying is that the incentive is working.

> Ah yes those horrific air-conditioned offices.

The offices themselves are usually not the terrible condition.