Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity — The Endeavour. Absolutely true.
And just one more reason that the corporate IT ecosystem is hopelessly broken. The weenies in management have no idea what productivity is when it comes to programming.
The most effective and useful code I’ve ever written has taken me almost no time to produce. Any project that took me longer than a month to produce I considered a failure, because I wanted my users to have something to solve their problems now. That’s what computers are for, right? Instant gratification? 