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I feel it is not unethical for a businessman type to profit from the work of nerds. In our studies, I have seen a trend where a smooth businessman type will profit off of the work of a nerd. I have heard the line that CEOs get Cs, managers get Bs, and coders get As and I think it may have some truth. Looking at Jobs and Wozniak, and even Gates and Ballmer, it seems to me that the people who are better at coding are often not the best at presenting the product the code becomes. It might be unfair that the nerds are relegated to code monkey status, but at least this way the oft-times brilliant work they do can be sold and they get some profit via this almost symbiotic relationship with the business sharks. Finding out Jobs was around ten times richer that Wozniak was a bit distressing, yet Wozniak probably wouldn't have had even that success without Jobs's efforts. Sometimes it truly is unfair, like when Jobs copied Xerox's workers' GUI ideas with no compensation; but those ideas would have gone nowhere at Xerox due to their poor management decisions. Were I to be the businessman in this sort of relationship or situation, I hope I would at least compensate the code producers better.