I use this time to play video games and watch porn because honestly, I'm tired of the whole hustle culture where you're expected to perform at 110% all the time and just get more work as a reward. We'll see how long before I get fired, and when that happens, the whole economy will probably be different from what it is today anyway, so whatever skills I pick up, they'll be obsolete.

> Why would you assume you are worth 2X to the company or any more?

I'm not. But the company isn't worth to me much either. So we're stuck in a situation where I do shit job and they pay me shit money, and that's their business model.

> I'm not sure how much you were expecting as a raise, but it would have never been even close to 100%. Companies just don't do this.

This is why employees who aren't lazy fucks like me jump ship every two years in order to maximize their income, because getting any raise whatsoever requires disproportionate amount of effort, which means that the whole model promotes keeping shit developers instead of good ones.

I'm not claiming I'm a good developer. Maybe I don't deserve to earn 2x. I'm just claiming that the company is dysfunctional because there's a self-correcting mechanism in place that promotes incompetence and laziness, and I'm acting as designed per the mechanism.