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That's cool. It sounds like most of us aren't making what you make. I don't make 16x what someone paid minimum wage makes, much less an electrical engineer.

The median wage for programmers is about 5x the average minimum wage. You're paid significantly higher than the average programmer.

Especially outside the US where having a 140 IQ isn't really enough to have a high wage. Only social EQ and high capital does that in most of the world.

Jealousy is absolutely a thing.

You're an outlier and you must surely know that.

I’m just a founder and that’s the dividends from a currently-lucky bootstrapped startup (and that will change). I may be an outlier but employee salaries are quite high too; still enough to be worth replacing — and AI is nowhere near humans, really.