If you think it's so easy, you can quit and start your own company and find out.
“If you are homeless, just buy a house.”
Unlike buying a house, writing software can be done without up front investment in one's spare time
Turns out the value of it actually isn't just the code though...
> without up front investment
If you don’t count a computer and the time it takes to learn.
I'm assuming people comparing only earning a Bay Area salary to chattel slavery have reached that point already