I think coding just generates a ridiculous and growing amount of value. Look at this list of companies with large earnings per employee. Note that they all specialize in some form of tech or finance. With a regular job, you’re bottlenecked by how much work you can accomplish as an individual. With programming, the value you generate is proportional to how much value your code generates. A Lawyer might generate 100,000$ in value per year. The company that makes lawyers 5% more efficient generates 5,000$ / lawyer*year. The lawyer has to dedicate his life to doing that. The other does it once and moves on to something else that goes on to produce even more value. It might even be the case that they are worth even more, but companies are under paying them. This is before factoring in that developers get more and more powerful each year. Computers become more capable, the internet gains new users, and software development tools become more sophisticated but easier and more intuitive to use.
I think coding just generates a ridiculous and growing amount of value. Look at this list of companies with large earnings per employee. Note that they all specialize in some form of tech or finance. With a regular job, you’re bottlenecked by how much work you can accomplish as an individual. With programming, the value you generate is proportional to how much value your code generates. A Lawyer might generate 100,000$ in value per year. The company that makes lawyers 5% more efficient generates 5,000$ / lawyer*year. The lawyer has to dedicate his life to doing that. The other does it once and moves on to something else that goes on to produce even more value. It might even be the case that they are worth even more, but companies are under paying them. This is before factoring in that developers get more and more powerful each year. Computers become more capable, the internet gains new users, and software development tools become more sophisticated but easier and more intuitive to use.