Nobody knows what you're capable of when you're being hired (unless you're well known - in which case you command a premium anyway), and once you're in the system it's highly unlikely you'll get paid more just for being a better employee. At the very least, you have to demand it.
Your employer is usually perfectly happy getting more for less.
Who is the target audience of TFA? Most likely, people who want to 'level up' in their career and still naively believe that skill (versus hustling or nepotism) is the main driver of such things. [0]
Entire frameworks have been built just to afford the creators a career in consulting so they can 'level up'. Perhaps the less the average engineer thinks about such things, the better...
I should put in a caveat since this is hacker news - being actually good rather than having the appearance of being good is better for your career in startups, but the opposite is true for BigCos like FAANG.
Your employer is usually perfectly happy getting more for less.
Who is the target audience of TFA? Most likely, people who want to 'level up' in their career and still naively believe that skill (versus hustling or nepotism) is the main driver of such things. [0]
Entire frameworks have been built just to afford the creators a career in consulting so they can 'level up'. Perhaps the less the average engineer thinks about such things, the better...
I should put in a caveat since this is hacker news - being actually good rather than having the appearance of being good is better for your career in startups, but the opposite is true for BigCos like FAANG.
[0] https://i.redd.it/90avfvfjxj961.jpg