An interesting video from the folks at RSA. It was presented to me as evidence that the profit motive was mistaken. I’m not sure why exactly. Especially as the video stated explicitly that the profit motive works perfectly for some tasks and that for other tasks the best option was to pay enough money to make it no longer an issue. Unsurprisingly that pretty much exactly matches my experience of working as a software engineer. That the job is interesting is much more important than the amount of money paid past a certain point. Heck, I used to work in a call center doing internet technical support. There is nearly no amount of money that I could be paid to do that job again.
