The point is you don't need to disrupt that culture. That culture is in fact what would permit the idea to work. There are badly paid good programmers already i

The point is you don't need to disrupt that culture. That culture is in fact what would permit the idea to work. There are badly paid good programmers already in China and elsewhere. If you can manage to produce quality work and convince people to hire you consistently (big if, I know) in the high paying market, you can leverage the existing programming population oferring wages a lot higher.