The post is full of gems, but this is probably the best part:
stable stable, which is consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full comp market rates. These are largely flying under the news radar. These companies aren't Google or Apple, but rather some tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for years without destabilizing the world. Stable stable companies do that thing where every quarter they "beat expectations" on their stock reports by a coincidental $0.01 just to prove they are always growing.
He seems to think that people working at manufacturing companies are making $10k per day.
BTW, this is what antirez wrote about the author 10 years ago:
He's looked at levels.fyi.
He even links to it from his resume.
His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.
Wow, indeed, in his resume under "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment", he links to levels.fyi page for L10 Google Engineer ($3M total comp).
I deserve a $3M salary and if I don't get, it means the whole industry is fricked 
If this guy has reasonable technical chops, he seems like someone who would be great to work with.
It's always, always good to have people in your group who are willing to call a steaming shitpile a steaming shitpile. It's also always good to have people in your group who can fairly rapidly turn a steaming shitpile into something that's fit for purpose and reasonably maintainable.
HNers are absolutely terrible at recognizing smart people. I think that's why they often heavily upmarsey beginner-level projects like "I made Redis in Python (meaning: I wrapped a dict with a simple API)" or "I made a desktop in HTML/JS"
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I remember seeing this
on the orange site when it first came up but I kinda 
and just laughed at the 
losing their jobs so I didn't see this part but I think he's saying that the total for all wagies at the company comes to 10k/day ish which doesn't seem too strange
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