I think there's this conceit floating around, perhaps, that the web is supposed to be some kind of overunity money engine for which the laws of supply and demand need not apply. Photoshop, SaaS sites like Wix and Business Catalyst, and freelance sites like elance, play a bit part in fostering the idea that what we do (at any level) isn't necessarily work, and seem to cater at various degrees to the desire to outsource or eliminate developers altogether while still gaining all the fruits of the development.

After all, freelance sites like elance exist based on the premise that developers will claw over one another to underbid for a project, and they will. Just try to win a contract there charging more than twenty dollars an hour. It's absurd what rates people (on both sides of the table) will accept just to get any business done at all. It's terrible, and unjust, but on the other hand enough of us are willing to participate in a system stacked against our own interests that we prove its efficacy to business owners, because we need the work.