[freefaler]

It's not that skills prevents starting a company, it's the amount of risk & uncertainty people are happy to live with. Programmers like predictability because what you'd do if your compiler gave a different result every time you compile your code?

A rational person getting a 300K salary would be better off on average than a small business owner after 5 years.

Sales people are paid a high percentage of the deal they close because they need to produce a consistent result in inconsistent environment. Also businesses can easily measure the output of a sales person, but it's way harder to measure a programmers output in a larger team.

[xerox13ster]

> what you'd do if your compiler gave a different result every time you compile your code?

Start calling their job Prompt Engineering.