Rather than music, I find a much better comparison in sports. Football is easy. Anyone can gather friends in a court or park and kick the ball for a while. Kid

Rather than music, I find a much better comparison in sports. Football is easy. Anyone can gather friends in a court or park and kick the ball for a while. Kids and middle aged fathers do it all the time. However not everyone can play professionally, say in a second or third division, and earn a living wage out of it. And still less people make it to the top teams of the first division, becoming millionaires and celebrities. The ratios are different, but these groups roughly map to people ability to code. Probably most people can "write code" to some extent. Few of those will be able to make a career out of it as professional developers. And yet a smaller number will make it to FANG and other top companies, making 6 figure salaries like it's nothing.