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Along the lines of some quoted text in a previous post:

Management skills have never been highly valued or utilized in small companies. When you're working with 10 other people, it's just not that needed. Also, entrepreneurs tend to get excited by doing -- coding, writing, designing, etc; Not by managing people who code, write and design. But, with today's ability to work with people all across the world comes the the great responsibility of needing to manage them to get what you want. It's going to change the required skills for successful entrepreneurs. Successful management ability early on, not just great drive and persistence, is going to become an absolute must. From Joe Kraus

Which, really, just confirms what Arley said in reply to the original post:

There's no scarcity of managers. There's a scarcity of software engineers willing to work for the illegal wage of $4/hour. That's the only scarcity I see now in American IT.

Wha-BAAM! Whenever I think I have the market cornered on bitter-cynasism, Our Man in Houston shows me who's boss ;>