Handling outage on production caused by code defect: 2 support people @ 0.5 hour 2 ops people @ 1 hour 1 developer @ 1 hour 1 mid-manager @ 0.5 hour 1 exec @ 0.5 hour (to keep asking what's going on)
Total: 5 man hours during the incident. The after incident review is roughly the same, including preparation time. Grand total: 10 man hours
Peer review: 1 developer @ 0.25 hours
Where I'm from, 0.25 is less than 10. Peer review is one of the best ways of "gaining speed and reduce people needed".
This is a near perfect breakdown of time. The 0.5 hour from the exec and mid-manager is so true. There are 2 parts to the equation that you're missing however that get those numbers much closer to each other:
1. Not all production pushes have bugs that cause outages
2. Peer reviews do not catch 100% of those bugs
The total equation ends up 10 hours * %ChanceOfBug less than? 0.25 hours + (10.25 hours * %ChanceOfBug * %ChancePeerDetected)
I'm not the OP, but this is a really easy one to field.
No human has ever done enough work to justify $600,000,000. Even if you could claim that someone created that much wealth, they didn't do it on their own - they did it off the back of hard work of hundreds of other people who will never see a penny of that money, despite earning it for them.
Bill Gates has clearly added $600,000,000 in value toward society. The amount of worldwide jobs, enhancements, competitors, etc... that he helped start. Are you kidding?
Off the backs, seriously, wow; ya Steve Ballmer is super poor. Satya can probably barely feed a family. I heard that Paul Allen is on foodstamps now. Now that I reflect on your post it must be a joke. Microsoft has made thousands of people millionaires; and arguably indirectly created more jobs and raised the standard of living worldwide more than anything else in human history. At least the industry itself could claim that and Microsoft is a large player.
The government spends money on wars, prisons, corporate welfare, and subsidies for a bloated and wasteful healthcare system.
Also infrastructure, education, public safety, human welfare, law enforcement, and unprofitable scientific research, but who needs that stuff right?
Google really needs that money, after all. CEOs' megayachts have to fly now.
All of those things are still paid for. The employees all pay taxes, and google is able to pay higher salaries because they dodge taxes. Local government and local taxes are generally better run, less wasteful, and able to fail and adapt; therefore distributing taxes to the employees and where they choose to shop, live, eat, etc... is a better model than dumping it in the massive federal level of a mess.
I haven't gone out to go shopping for months, and before that time, it was also probably 4-6 months. When I did go out the shopping was sort of incidental; a stop for something after a movie or dinner out typically.
Clearly you do not have kids
Neutrinos have bad breadth.