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> the labor markets don't pay chefs anywhere near that much.

Well, they did at least once.

And how do we know that the Google Chef didn't contribute enough economic value to generate $20 million? You can't say that just because he's one level farther removed from the final product. If he helped enable the company to recruit talent and helped enable that talent to produce then he very easily could have been worth $20 million.



>You can't say that just because he's one level farther removed from the final product.

Indeed. It'd be like arguing that an engineer who goes into management is now contributing less to the company since they are no longer writing code.




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