> For engineers and artists, it's not really an issue. We want to see our best work appreciated, primarily.
I want to be paid first. Everything else comes second. That doesn't not make me an engineer. It makes me a wise engineer. Money buys options and freedom. Prestige and other abstract concepts are used to steal your time and value.
Right, but you aren't going to raise hell if someone makes more money on your work than you did. That's not the attitude of a craftsman, but business folks think in terms of lost potential revenue and junk like that and thus are not above such things.
It's okay if they make 'more' money, but whenever an entity makes giant piles of money I wish there was a small mandatory royalty to the original creators.
