Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a ...

		username223 on May 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is... Maybe that works for Levandowski-level celebrity engineers. There are, maybe, a few thousand pro football players in the world, and a few hundred on the top teams. (For comparison, there are 450 players in the NBA.) The tech behemoths each have tens of thousands of employees, so most engineers are a commodity.

You can't typically replace a 150k/yr engineer with two 75k/yr engineers.