The comparison with law is interesting, because there are a lot of low-paid lawyers. This is true of programmers, too. In many countries, the average programmer

The comparison with law is interesting, because there are a lot of low-paid lawyers. This is true of programmers, too. In many countries, the average programmer makes about the average salary, often even with a CS degree under their belt. (Ie. most of western Europe) Even in the US, salaries are highly dependent on your region, and on your skill. Doctors are outliers compared to basically every other profession; no one that highly educated gets exploited as brutally, virtually across all systems and countries. My personal guess is that this is due to their passion and specific character traits being easily exploitable. I doubt that programmer salaries will fall across the board, although it might be true that low-to-mid-tier skill levels will become almost redundant. The programmers I know in great positions are generally highly intelligent and put in way more hours than the average person, they are simply irreplaceable without great AGI, and they are quintessential to the modern economy.