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More money won't make me do much more. I already get enough, and my dislike of something and the added stress of slogging through it isn't worth it. I'm not a frycook desperate for more hours to make rent this month.

Genuine interest in the technology? That'll boost my competence leaps and bounds (through the experience I have pre-cached from my time off of work alone) for no extra pay!

In other words, at dev level,

> someone primarily motivated by money

is likely far too up Maslow's hierarchy for extra pay to make up for the problem of having pure "hired guns".



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