Oh, sure, but in the 90s if you wanted to work crazy hours you’d have made a LOT more money by going to law school and making those extra hours billable. A lot of dotcom people were making like $60-80k - not bad but not amazing - and hoping for a big options payout to make the extra hours more worthwhile.
But only $140k by the turn of the century, which is when the dotcom bubble was happening. Again, I’m not saying it was terrible or anything, just that it wasn’t the equivalent of the FAANG engineers getting $400+k total compensation.
