[foobarrio]

Claims of "there are too few good programmers" tend to have an implicit "...at the price we wish to pay...".

[shagie]

Which in turn implies a "developers are equally valuable to all companies".

There are companies where the value of a programmer isn't the same as the value of a programmer in another company.

There is no way for small SaaS company with revenue of a few million overall can compete with the amount that a tech company with the revenue of a million per employee is the norm.

[phenkdo]

and conversely "..at a capability we have". Sloganeering like you did is very popular on fora like HN, but the reality is quite different. There is 110% employment in tech even if you a C-grade programmer you have a job, the rest are insufferable, incompetents who are unemployable at any wage.