> But maybe the job isn't economically worth it at the higher salary?
As in, their business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running?
As in, their business doesn't even generate enough revenue to afford hiring the kind of people who can keep it running?
That said, a lot of 'jobs' are simply H1B fodder or resume bait etc.
Should workers be doing charity work now?
It's also a marketplace where one side has much more information and negotiating power than the other.
Even businesses which generate enough revenue to be able to afford higher salaries don't want to pay more for labor. They want to pay less for more.
They just get inordinately rewarded for their work, because most of their work involves maintaining the status quo, with them on top. It's their families that don't work.
Moreover, so far the only thing revolution has been good for is shuffling the parasites. I strongly suspect there are biological reasons behind our feudal support of strongmen.
I think this is more simple: units of production are less obviously attributable to FTE count or difference in skill in software than in other fields. Therefore, management is less sure how much developer they actually need to purchase.
None of this is all-or-nothing. Companies use their power over the individual applicants as a response to the vagaries of the market. However, the basic logic divide and conquer ing means that they always have more power than individuals selling their services to them.