Maybe more childhood vaccines?
Doing software requires great intelligence and a willingness to do hard mental work. Most people like this have traditionally been able to earn much more money working in other fields. Doing software also means a low level of human interaction; for most people this is a negative for which they would yet further add to their compensation demands.
What the industry needs are more people with intelligence and mental energy who, so they can be paid less, _don't_ have other options and who don't even want more human interaction than developers experience. What industry needs is more people with light levels of Aspergers Syndrome.
The problem is that businessmen do not have a reliable way of inducing autism in children. Childhood inocculations were once thought to do it, but as it turned out it wasn't so.
