Part of the reasons why developers are so common is because starting is easy thanks to these 'free' tools. They better pay, or some body 15 years from now will

Part of the reasons why developers are so common is because starting is easy thanks to these 'free' tools. They better pay, or some body 15 years from now will have to spend $10,000 just to being learning how to code. That not only reduces number of programmers that you can hire, that will create a serious general programmer crunch, that will likely increase the cost of making software 1000x.