[clifanatic]

Well, if everybody else thinks that programmers make $200K/year, there's a chance that somebody might consider paying $200K/year. That seems like an incentive to me.

[ghurtado]

Maybe, but you would need massive collusion with millions of developers that you have never met in order to pull this stunt.

I don't think that sounds very plausible.

[clifanatic]

Well, we have you and we have me - who else is on board?

[ghurtado]

Hate to say it, but you only have you so far.

[user5994461]

Nope. Lots of places can't pay that money. They'll still try to interview and hire people but they can't compete.

There is a very wide range of salary, skill and experience in tech. A single figure is not of much use. If anything it might be ruined by the vast majority of cheap companies (i.e. outside of Google/Apple/Facebook/... )