I had the opposite reaction actually. You posted that, so I went to find out how many developers there are in the US. According to wikipedia, there are approx

I had the opposite reaction actually. You posted that, so I went to find out how many developers there are in the US. According to wikipedia, there are approximately 457,000 programmers in the US, which seems like a smaller number than I would have guessed. For contrast, there are ~1.2 million attorneys.