I wish I could make six figures flipping burgers. Actually, why aren't most burger flippers applying for IT jobs?

I wish I was making 100k as a dev, but plot twist outside of the US this is the minority.

I was comparing burger flippers to michelin chefs, not to devs. The vast majority of devs are gluing tools together and working on basic CRUD stuff, which is the burger flipping of the tech world. It's just a job, people don't want to think about code in the shower, on walks, or "cry" about tech problems as the author seems to romanticise. A job is here to provide money so you can live life, not the other way around. If I can automate my burger flipping to go to the gym or read a book instead I'll gladly do it