Definitely. But I don’t see the point of paying someone $200k to write a simple web app, even if it’s using react and kubernetes. VC has killed innovation and instead created a cyclical bullshit engine.
It's not only because VC sort of manipulating software labour values although it's their nature of so called "investment", it's also software developer communities. If you are around those slack channels, forums long enough you start to see there are very few discussion of developing anything real or valuable. Most of them spend time just "playing" technology/tools.
It's win-win BS. That's why it keeps going. The reality of its economy comes in delay long enough (e.g. 5 years with no profit, keep funding) that every body is detached from economic principle. With printed money lately .. oh the collapse might not come at all, you can be alive in coma for a decade as long as oxygen keeps pumping into your dead body.
You're paying that $200K because otherwise there is no way you're getting the business off the ground. And "simple" is relative, every customer is going to need a customized app.
This is not a trivial field, contrary to what some are trying to claim.
> You're paying that $200K because otherwise there is no way you're getting the business off the ground
This is a completely absurd comment and notion. There’s talented people all over the world who don’t need $200k salaries and also simply get things accomplished without whining about not being able
to use whatever tech is popular on HN at the moment.
