"We'll see what happens in twenty years - my guess is programmer wages will be severely depressed by the older generation that can't stop working and will accep

"We'll see what happens in twenty years - my guess is programmer wages will be severely depressed by the older generation that can't stop working and will accept a lower "survival" wage. " It will be interesting. You already have that weird curve where people start pretty high, climb some more for the next 10 years and then either stagnate or often go down in salary. I don't know of any other profession where you often make less the more experience you have.