I'm no Kent Beck, I'm just an average software engineer on the east coast with a bit less then 10 years experience. Recently I turned down 100K a year + 3 weeks

I'm no Kent Beck, I'm just an average software engineer on the east coast with a bit less then 10 years experience. Recently I turned down 100K a year + 3 weeks vacation and all kinds of other benefits, from a large well known company. The people there were super nice and every developer got their own office with great windows. The job was just simple programming. But I had no interest in the industry and chose a different offer. Anyway, I am not sure what Kent Beck's financial needs are or what he means when he says that The prices for programming have fallen so far.. It seems to me any decent programmer should be able to make a good living just programming. Does anyone know what Kent Beck is talking about?