>There is no value in music, books, movies, video games?
No.
When push comes to shove and society can't afford luxuries for one reason or another, they are among the first things thrown out for a greater (valuable) cause with no tangible losses sustained.
Programming is only art when the goal is creativity, like in creative mechanics for video games. It isn't art when it is just to make a product work, just like most people don't consider designers artists. There is an aspect of art to it, but there is an aspect of art to most engineering and development things, programming is as much an art as pretty much any other white collar job.
