[newen]

I think you have a good point here. I see a time when programmers become somewhat replaceable and when the industry as a whole reduces benifits for programmers bit by bit. Currently, there is a huge increase in the number of freshmen joining the computer science department in the university I attended and I see it only growing. In the future, a computer science degree might become something like the biology degree and that's when programmers will feel the pain of not being high-demand skilled laborers any more.