"...that's not a bad salary."

That's entitlement thinking and it ignores economics. Salaries in software (and in most white collar jobs) are a negotiation. If all goes well the employer feels they are slightly overpaying and the employee feels slightly undervalued. If either side is happy then there's an inequity.

One is not entitled to specific salary, nor is one limited by a specific cap on salary.

The second point that there are non-monetary values to a job is well said though.