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> 50-90k...wow. For people with so much promise to advance human welfare to be worth less to society than an entry web dev salary in a decent market speaks volumes.

It basically depicts in stark contrasts what our true priorities are. Not what we pretend we value, but what we do value in reality.

Sorry if it sounds cynical, but I see no other conclusion.

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Nobody gets paid based on how we value the work they do. It's supply vs. demand.

You can have relatively unskilled labor paid a lot if there aren't many people and very skilled labor paid little if there are a lot of them. It shouldn't be surprising.

"Demand" is just another name for what we, collectively, value and desire to acquire.

Pg talked about "measurement and leverage."Please see this http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html You don't get paid really well just because you do anything fancy.There is a reason why Larry Page and Sergey Brin dumped PhD for industry.

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