Comment Re:Seems you already have enough of your own. (Score 1) 553
Owe I do understand this and that is only serves to prove why people who develop software should get royalties. This is because each new program that is developed is in itself an invention. The programmer writes the blueprint(code) and the compilers/computers do the labor of making it into machine code. No two programs, are ever exactly the same, unless someone copies someone else's code. The end-result may appear simular but the blueprint for each program is unique. Invention is creating something new and wholy unique. Programs are unique inventions of not the investors or management but the developers.
Just feeling scammed isn't the same as legitimately being scammed. The employer is upfront and honest at the start. They tell you how much you will be paid BEFORE you take the job. If you then accept the job how can you honestly say you were scammed?
Not many employer's that I am aware of are ever fully upfront about what they can and should be paying but try to hide it. Instead they choose to only pay the minimum amount a qualfied person is willing to work for. Most corporations tell you not to discuss your salary with other workers and the executives try to avoid the question always.
Based on your line of reasoning alone some cashier at McDonalds is being scammed simply as long as he feels he is.
I have no doubt that McDonalds execs make far more than they are worth and pay a lot less to their workers than they should. The trouble is that people need to earn a living, they know this and exploit people to get rich.
If you are not satisfied with the amount of compensation you are getting for your labor you are free to quit and try to find more compensation elsewhere. If that does not work within the same industry then you have the option of training yourself for a new job/industry that offers higher pay.
I never said that I was unsastified personally. More money is always nice but what I'm really after is better way to make software development work for everyone. Lets make doing software development worthwhile again. Do away with the overpaying of executives and bring on the royalties to improve the industry as a whole.
What I am trying to get across to you is that this is no longer the dot.com 1990's. Programmers are no longer thought of as "A Special Class of Worker". Due to the influx of comp-sci and EE students they're now a dime a dozen, and this isn't even counting the overseas IT counterparts. Supply and demamd. When there is more supply (and there is) of techies, their compensation will decline. There is also less demand for techies then there used to be. This ALSO lowers compensation for the IT field.
No doubt there are plenty of people who know a little about programming, computers and other techie stuff. Like you said, the people who can invent new ideas are very very rare. Software developers, the good ones, are also very rare. It's no coicindence because the best software developers are amoung the best inventors.
Apparently you are one of the last people to get over the initial shock of the crash in the year 2000. YOU ARE NOT WORTH WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE. I'm not even trying to be an asshole about this anymore. A lot of people have royally screwed themselves over because they couldn't get over their own dot.com inflated egos and eat some humble pie.
I'm amoung the most humble of the technical peers. When the job loss came I didn't draw unemployement, I took a lower paying job. I've been underemployed for over 3 years. I have no illusions about myself. I am a fairly good software developer/inventor but would'nt go as far as too say that I'm even in the top 20%. Th main reason being that I haven't "cashed-in" on it yet. Occasionaly I'll get a spark of and idea then try to implement it or atleast do the initial design work. What incentive is there for me to work for overpaid executives though? Why should my ideas go to make someone else rich?
