Everybody who really makes money owns a piece of a product, or a business, or some IP. That can be through stock options, working at a tech company. But real wealth is created by starting your own companies, or by even investors.
One great engineer can for eg create bitcoin, and create billions of dollars worth of value. And an engineer who is working on the wrong thing can work for an entire year, and every piece of code they ship ends up not getting used.
That is an example of a profession where the input and the outputs are disconnected. It’s not the number of hours that you put in
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