Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--1b4a68-And I saw this happen in the f/en

And I saw this happen in the field of programming. The very same people who used to work at the AI lab and get payed very little and love it, now wouldn't dream of working for less than fifty thousand dollars a year. What happened? When you dangle before people the possibility of making lots of money, when they see that other people doing similar work are getting paid that much money, they feel that they should get the same, and thus no-one is willing to continue the old way. And it's easy after this has happened to think that paying people a lot of money is the only way it could be, but that's not so. If the possibility of making a lots of money did not exist, you would have people who would accept doing it for a little money, specially when it's something that is creative and fun.