Yes, contrary to this weird narrative we are seeing everywhere, not literally everyone on the planet needs to be coding.
It's clear there are people out there doing social engineering on a mass scale, and it's not limited to the tech industry. But with regard to the tech industry, a big part of it is wage devaluation for software engineers, something that Apple, Microsoft, and most other big players in the industry were busted for colluding on in the 90s.
Next you had this huge push to turn India and China into outsourcing farms. It happened, and wages did drop, but it wasn't a slam dunk.
Now it's "let's get more women in tech" and "let's get EVERYONE coding." Gotta commoditize this industry to rock bottom. Another part of the narrative is let's open source EVERYTHING, because that's innately moral, and closed source is immoral. Like there's no middle ground, literally everything should be open source. Let's just pretend this is sustainable. Recently people realized Slack wasn't open source, and was making money, and we clearly can't have that! How disgusting! Lately there's been a lot of discussion about making a completely FOSS alternative and drive them out of business.
However, if you feel like you want to get into coding, by all means go for it! Just don't do it because the media made a coordinated effort to present it to as some kind of noble cause that literally everyone needs to get into ASAP.
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0 u/neogag 26 Apr 2016 15:30
Sure, let's make fucking everyone a programmer because fuck the wages still being worth a damn.
Let's devalue the whole fucking thing with this bizarre narrative that everyone needs to get into this field for the greater good.
0 u/James_C [OP] 26 Apr 2016 15:45
So you're saying we shouldn't all be coding?
1 u/neogag 26 Apr 2016 17:38
Yes, contrary to this weird narrative we are seeing everywhere, not literally everyone on the planet needs to be coding.
It's clear there are people out there doing social engineering on a mass scale, and it's not limited to the tech industry. But with regard to the tech industry, a big part of it is wage devaluation for software engineers, something that Apple, Microsoft, and most other big players in the industry were busted for colluding on in the 90s.
Next you had this huge push to turn India and China into outsourcing farms. It happened, and wages did drop, but it wasn't a slam dunk.
Now it's "let's get more women in tech" and "let's get EVERYONE coding." Gotta commoditize this industry to rock bottom. Another part of the narrative is let's open source EVERYTHING, because that's innately moral, and closed source is immoral. Like there's no middle ground, literally everything should be open source. Let's just pretend this is sustainable. Recently people realized Slack wasn't open source, and was making money, and we clearly can't have that! How disgusting! Lately there's been a lot of discussion about making a completely FOSS alternative and drive them out of business.
However, if you feel like you want to get into coding, by all means go for it! Just don't do it because the media made a coordinated effort to present it to as some kind of noble cause that literally everyone needs to get into ASAP.