> Can’t we demand a piece of this?

You can demand whatever you want. You could demand a million dollar salary if you wanted.

The challenge is that there are a lot of very qualified devs who would do it for less.

Labor is a market. Supply and demand determines your wages.

There are always hand-wavey arguments about unionization fixing this, but when other developers are hungry for those jobs and willing to go around the union to work them for pay then that doesn’t really work at scale.

There are several unionized software development groups in the US. They don’t have a good track record of getting significantly higher pay or even getting their demands met from their limited strikes.

> Can’t we demand a piece of this?

If your company is publicly traded, you can buy its stock.