While I agree with you, the claim programmers are generally underpaid got me thinking. If every programmer earns less compared to the field, nobody really does.

While I agree with you, the claim programmers are generally underpaid got me thinking. If every programmer earns less compared to the field, nobody really does. (Think of the famous quote in The Incredibles: If everybody's incredible, nobody is.) So either we're all underpaid compared to the value we generate, or we all overvalue everything we create. Strange that there are no reliable metrics in a field filled with zeros and ones.