His problem is he's comparing jobs in completely different categories Law, Medicine, Business are high-status and high-competition jobs. Somewhere he got the d

His problem is he's comparing jobs in completely different categories Law, Medicine, Business are high-status and high-competition jobs. Somewhere he got the delusion that computer programming is comparable in terms of social status and now he's sad that the rewards are inferior. In the grand scheme, programming is pretty high status. There are many jobs that are lower status and only a handful that are higher status.