Summary: we don’t understand why programmers are paid so well.
Something I didn’t see addressed here or on Dan Luu’s blog post are productivity (as the main economic reason for wages) and scale ( as an amplifier for SWE productivity )
A SWE is made more productive by the tools available: fast cpus, internet, cloud, OSS, mobile
Cloud and mobile then amplify the value that the modern SWE brings to a business - but not to all of them
Businesses are not charity, they will pay less if they can
Something I didn’t see addressed here or on Dan Luu’s blog post are productivity (as the main economic reason for wages) and scale ( as an amplifier for SWE productivity )
A SWE is made more productive by the tools available: fast cpus, internet, cloud, OSS, mobile
Cloud and mobile then amplify the value that the modern SWE brings to a business - but not to all of them
Businesses are not charity, they will pay less if they can