This just shows that it's not technical ability that translates to money, it's salesmanship. These people aren't gifted programmers, obviously; what they are g

This just shows that it's not technical ability that translates to money, it's salesmanship. These people aren't gifted programmers, obviously; what they are good at is doing something that's "good enough" (and beyond the abilities of regular people still, mainly because the regular people haven't even bothered trying to DIY), and then selling it to them. There's countless examples of technical salespeople selling utter crap to clients for huge amounts of money; just look at "enterprise software". Much of it is utter junk, yet costs a fortune because some salesperson can convince some corporate exec that it's great.