Wow. Your time was valuable enough to be billed at nearly a grand an hour, and you didn’t think you could do significant better than $50/h working for yourself?

Wow. Your time was valuable enough to be billed at nearly a grand an hour, and you didn’t think you could do significant better than $50/h working for yourself? The other commenters in this thread seem to think that a ratio of roughly 3:1 is normal for a coder. Why do you think the difference is so huge?