Cute, but there are a lot of situations where this breaks down. It assumes that a programmer's efficiency is independent of a program's efficiency.
If I have to wait hours for a job to complete that could be completed in moments with a bit of extra work, there certainly is value in working on the optimisation.
If I have to wait hours for a job to complete that could be completed in moments with a bit of extra work, there certainly is value in working on the optimisation.