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Nice Halt and Catch Fire reference.

Why does it make any sense that these jobs with ridiculous numbers of qualified candidates would "get to be" the 1%, as opposed to those others you mention (iOS developer)?

Not asking you specifically, lordnacho. Just a question to the universe that's probably as useful as asking "why me?" whenever anything at all happens. Still though.

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iOS dev guy does not tie his self image to his net worth. You can buy his services with an interesting job. He also is not a hard bargainer, and just giving him enough to be comfortable will work.

Finance guy has been told his whole life to work hard. He goes into finance because he can't think of anything better to do (why don't interesting companies go to recruitment fairs? WTF?), but he does have this one trump card which is he went to Harvard. Having no particular interest, he goes for the highest paying job.

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