Anything has value as long as someone is willing to pay for that. Simple as that.
Is a Van Gogh painting worth 50-100 million dollars? It is if someone pays that much for it.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
If you think programmers are worth $0, then that's your prerogative.
However you must surely be typing these comments in a computer programmed by yourself, using an OS and reading it in a browser you wrote from scratch, otherwise why pay money (that ultimately will arrive at the pockets of the programmers) for something that is worth $0?
Anything has value as long as someone is willing to pay for that. Simple as that.
Is a Van Gogh painting worth 50-100 million dollars? It is if someone pays that much for it.
Nothing more. Nothing less.
If you think programmers are worth $0, then that's your prerogative.
However you must surely be typing these comments in a computer programmed by yourself, using an OS and reading it in a browser you wrote from scratch, otherwise why pay money (that ultimately will arrive at the pockets of the programmers) for something that is worth $0?