As a highschool dropout software-engineer (in eastern canada, but still) this just shows how... old this person is. Tech is a huge field, it's not just web dev

As a highschool dropout software-engineer (in eastern canada, but still) this just shows how... old this person is. Tech is a huge field, it's not just web dev. If the web industry somehow collapses, I'll go do some industrial automation or just sell physical stuff my robots created. You can say the tech bubble is lying, but I'll still be able to sell 3D printed kitch as long as there are hipsters and 3D printers. >This is the tech bubble’s newest, most sinister message: Who needs college, really? Who needs exposure to a broad range of ideas, cultures, religions, literature, ways of being in the world exactly at the time you’re most open and impressionable to discovering them? Spoken like someone who didn't grow up with access to the worlds largest library. I find it really hard to sympathize with someone who values "awkward teen sex" and college parties over building things. I grew up ghetto adjacent, and although I'm sure it would have been great to go to party U calling it an essential experience comes off as incredibly privileged. Fuck the sentiment that college own learning and even these essential experiences.