The sorry state of streaming residuals shows why SAG and the WGA are striking.

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    You worked in a shitty industry, I’m in the valley and the marketing guys make top bank, I was a Sr principal at one of the biggies and they blow me out of the water.

    Sales is often on a different level, commission is incredible.

    Where do you think the money is going?

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      I was reading a book on this recently and it had a good reason for why some departments get all the money and some don’t. Imagine you have a market that is saturated with products, you decided you can and want to buy, but can’t choose. In that case, sales/marketing is what brings in the most money, so they have the most power and get paid accordingly.

      Now imagine the post-war booming economy where every car made gets sold and cars are fairly established as a product. Sales and engineering performance are not that important, but financial departments grew immensely, because the competition was on optimizing, cost-cutting, investment and consolidation.

      Last example: new industry, still figuring out the best methods, newest products and killer apps: engineering has the most power.

      Given the economy we’re in right now, where money is tight, new products outside the AI hype/boom are going to be companies fighting to sell you their product, so marketing is winning right now, but it may change.

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        Easier answer: social skills + their whole job is ass-kissing, they get very good at it.

        Imagine how good engineers could be if they didn’t have to waste all their time doing actual work.

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          Yes, that same book also talked about how success and pay is only 5% performance and the rest is self promotion and sucking up…that helps put a lot of life in perspective