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So you're blaming the 60s, 70s and 80s for kids who grew up in the 2000s and don't code now? Because I don't know a single person who is in the field of IT who

So you're blaming the 60s, 70s and 80s for kids who grew up in the 2000s and don't code now? Because I don't know a single person who is in the field of IT whose parents were in IT. Positions barely existed until the 90s. No one has yet explained why even segregation today in some part of the country is affecting ethnic groups NOT interested or apt in coding to the level of getting the jobs.

coldtea 11y ago
>So you're blaming the 60s, 70s and 80s for kids who grew up in the 2000s and don't code now? Those kids didn't develop in vitro in some abstract new environment. They had parents, grandparents, neighborhoods, school districts, schools, family fortune (or lack thereof) potential employers (themselves born in the 60' 60's and 80s) etc. Anybody who thinks those things don't affect the nurture, career and prospects of a young person, or that those things change in a few decades, are deluded. Usually the same people also fail to understand the notion of statistics, and think that outliers that beat the odds and rose to become successful entrepreneurs or whatever from such upbringings translate to "it's equally easy for whites and blacks to become successful, here, this kid proved it, but most blacks are just lazy". In other words people who don't understand that most white people play life in easy mode, where most blacks do not -- and point to some "hard mode" winners as if that means everything is equally easy for everybody. http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate