[moorhosj]

==then why have far older and desirable professions like law and medicine continued to be incredibly well paying?==

These are actually two perfect examples to illustrate my point. Both industries are represented by organizations that systematically make it harder for more people to enter the profession (AMA for medicine and Bar Association for legal). They have eschewed the free market in favor of regulatory capture in order to maintain their market advantage.

==Software is hard, humans have a hard time doing hard things, that's why we get paid more.==

Same could have been said of building cars and planes 50 years ago.

[dymk]

== Same could have been said of building cars and planes 50 years ago. ==

...and automotive and aerospace engineers are still paid quite well.

[Apocryphon]

Looks like they've got a union:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Engine...