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Difference in pay scale between all of these people is maybe $20k, and "you" aren't even in the low end.
Turns out just being able to show up at the office interview wearing khaki pants and making eye contact with your future boss counts for more than optimizing graph trees via psychic technomancy.
Christ, that poor Intel engineer is probably out on the unemployment line right now
I am pretty much Tharg and Thargs don't make a lot of money because we have better things to do.
Sometimes Thargs make money if the better thing they decide to do happens to be commercially valuable and they don't happen to decide to make it open source: e.g. Gabe Newell