I don't see programmers saying "I'm a superior human." I see them saying "I know I can make $X elsewhere, so I'm clearly not going to accept less than $X here."

I don't see programmers saying "I'm a superior human." I see them saying "I know I can make $X elsewhere, so I'm clearly not going to accept less than $X here." I believe bakers do the same thing, for smaller values of $X.