This is as idiotic as those "do baseball players make too much money" or "do CEOs make too much money" articles we see now and then.
You think companies sets out to over pay their employees? Salaries are driven by supply and demand.
Any argument in regards to people making too much is ridiculous. Payment is often indicated by difficulty to enter field, hours of work, risks involved, selective nature of the job (i.e, not everyone has the patients or academic aptitude to be a programmer, or a physician, or a lawyer).
You chose a career field, deal with it. Don't get mad at the guy who busted his ass and makes six figures. Because that same guy probably had to go through years of post high school education in challenging academia, a shit ton of loans, and probably didn't even start making "bank" until they were in their 30's.
There is an inherent reason why people of particular professions get paid what they do. It's all based on demand and if demand is high and the selection pool is low, this equates to usually high salaries.
What's worse is that this is purely an entertainment industry - the market, the consumers (aka us) can dictate everything in regards to how much developers get paid by supporting or not supporting games. Game company "over pays" employees and "nickel and dimes" consumers - well, stop buying their fucking games. You'll notice very quickly said game designer altering either their pay outs to devs or their nickel and diming of consumers. So him relating this to cops and teachers further makes no sense.