The programming talent myth

In America, instead, it's illegal to punish employers for demanding 60-hour workweeks -- but only employers of programmers.

Class warfare? Simple. Programming is labor with very high product-value. Artificially inflate the supply of programmers, whether by inflated enrollment or H1B immigration, and costs (i.e. salaries) plummet. Most people who graduate with tech degrees don't find work doing it, although chemists and biologists come off worst.

High salaries? Compared to what? The degree of skill required, and value extracted (not to say "produced") is in the ballpark with other professions, law and medicine. Periodically we hear warnings about upcoming grave shortages of physicians, but there is no H1B program flooding us with doctors and dentists. Credit the AMA and ADA where due. Programmers,instead, are singled out as "exempt" from labor protections and tax benefits.