Lot of weird trolls on this comment thread. New accounts to post anonymously.
What does that even mean, 'you don't have what it takes to be a software developer'? We work in a professional, respected industry where if anything the OP's boss should be pushed out, not the OP.
No, because OP is clearly delusional. He took what other people told him about what he should be making as gospel and then told his boss that he'd have to look for work elsewhere when an offer was made to him, because it was less than his "pie in the sky" number. Pay no attention to the fact that the guy has zero education and less than a year of work experience, or that his company clearly didn't value his production to the level of the other devs due to the fact that he didn't even have a company laptop.
Yeah, none of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he was fired. Because clearly, his boss is an evil mastermind who delights in the pain and suffering of uneducated people with overpopulated families and no prior work history.
Bottom line: he thinks he's worth 75K. Let's see him get it.
Why? Pick one. It's like the other poster here said: you're doing it all wrong.
If you ARE a programming fool (like me for example) go out and find a new gig. Move it! Move it! That's what I tell myself.
Then I get my act together and make it happen.