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Why should "the path to becoming an engineer should be wide open and accessible for everyone — particularly young people — regardless of their background, what
by dudul 11y ago
Why should "the path to becoming an engineer should be wide open and accessible for everyone — particularly young people — regardless of their background, what their parents do, or how much money they have" and not the path to becoming a lawyer, a nurse, a doctor, an architect?
I understand that HN is an echo chamber for developers and software people, but enough with this "everyone should learn to code" BS.
Everyone sells coding skills as a way to get more money and more freedom, but don't you understand that if everyone knows how to code the opposite will happen? Don't you see that companies push this crap down everyone throat to make sure they have access to a large pool of talent and can drive salaries down? Who keeps asking for "coding classes" for toddler? Who keeps pushing to raise the limit on H1B visas? Who finance coding bootcamps?
We need talent and smart people in all fields, not just software.
- consz 11y agoAgreed. I actually do believe that it's a pretty easy field to get into (I started learning freshman year of college having never coded before, and picked it up well enough by graduation to be successful in HFT) -- but there's no way in hell I'd want to give the impression to the general population that this is an easy discipline and everyone should flood in.