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Yes and we really should be crying for the software developers who worked for slave wages and had no opportunity to save.



At least they did something useful and actually earned their pay.


Like creating a company that gives thousands of people jobs? Or creating infrastructure to enable millions of web based businesses the ability to mindlessly process payments? God, I miss the old HN. This place is reddit now.


Who built the railroads? J. P. Morgan, or the millions of people who worked for him?

Not surprising to see execs and founders on here patting each other on the back and trying to convince everyone that they deserve their millions because of how innovative they are all the "value" they create. Looks like the old HN to me.


I’m neither an executive or a founder. I’m just self aware enough to know that software engineers aren’t exactly starving.


Another entry in the decades-long saga: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=149257




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