IMHO, if we are more united and concerned about our professions as a whole.

We'd organize to have professional licensing boards to artificially limit the supply of "licensed" coders and raise wages (e.g., American Medical Association that regulate MCAT/MLE Step exams, State Boards that administer bar exams etc, PE/professional engineer licenses).

But I'd like to consider coders as less calculating and more socialist that allows people from non-traditional backgrounds make the effort to join the ranks; and also heed to its "blue collar" technical roots than try to aspire to be elitist like doctors or lawyers.