Engineering costs and money in your wallet

Engineering resources are produced by production equipment that cannot be distributed separately from the brain of the individual engineer, and ownership belongs to the individual engineer.

Sometimes non-engineers say things like, "If an engineer did this, wouldn't that be the overall optimization?" or something like that.

• How this looks to an engineer is like "I have a 10,000 yen bill in your wallet, let's all go see a movie together, everyone is happy to see a movie, so it's overall optimal".
• That's not total optimization.
• The reason why such a misunderstanding occurs is because engineers misinterpret their "time" as if it were a free resource!

orthographical variants

• Engineering Resources / Developer Resources / Engineer Time.
• Non-engineer / non-engineer.
• Cannot be distributed / non-transferable resource. relevance
  • Price of a 30-second drawing
  • Source code and developer resources need to be distinguished
  • Misconception of time as a free resource Related?
  • Some people don't want to risk their reputation to get money.
  • It looks easier when you can't see the pyramid's foundation.

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