This is the correct answer. Of all the engineering fields, SWE is by far the one with highest salary compared to how difficult it is. SWE lucked out on the fact

This is the correct answer. Of all the engineering fields, SWE is by far the one with highest salary compared to how difficult it is. SWE lucked out on the fact that we have been going through a technological revolution, and naturally the demand for the people who work in this field is huge. Hence the pay. In my university SWE bachelors + masters degree has been seen as the easiest one as far as i can remember. Mechanical, bio, aerospace and electrical as the most difficult. It's always been funny to see the arrogance of some SWE who think that since they're the highest paid, they are also the most difficult and most important jobs, while it has zero to do with either of these two. Just luck of supply/demand. Otherwise mathematicians and physics would be sitting at the top with the highest paid careers and they... are not even close to that. For this reason I don't really feel sorry for AI replacing programmers/SWE, at least the ones that were arrogant enough to think in the way i explained.