RealLordZeus:

You dey mind him! Other countries that clients are billed hundreds and thousands of dollars compared to Nigeria where someone a few days ago, in this particular board, want a platform with more than a million function(lol) and ready to pay 40k.
If some one was to develop that job from scratch, it might take that person between 3-4 weeks. Now, subtract electricity cost, data cost, your own feeding, house rent between that period etc from 40k and see what will be left. Reason most ppl opt for readily developed script, tweak to the client taste and deliver the bloody job all within or less than a week!
So now tell me! Op! If u r the one that accept that particular 40k job, will u rather spend time coding long hours than using the sensible option.

And if you are referring to developing for oneself, u should know the situation of things in this country kill dreams faster than bullet! I used to say and I repeat, most successful people out there (not talking of the middle class), I meant those that really succeed has one kind of leverage or the other.
So my brother! Unless u have enough to eat, not bothering on how to pay the next house rent, buy fuel, make he next data subscription etc, then u can put your brain to use in developing such high end apps. Else , jezz forget it.

You have said it all sir..

Let me start here, In Dubai, Programmers earn as high as 2 million montly, and Americans and other countries they earn more than that.. Nigerian clients don't want to pay much for projects...

So you dey compare other countries with Nigeria?