> So, what is off-kilter here? Unfortunately, at least in the software industry, not everyone can do the work. There is a barrier to entry that may be grounded

> So, what is off-kilter here? Unfortunately, at least in the software industry, not everyone can do the work. There is a barrier to entry that may be grounded in innate ability and is exacerbated by educational inequality. As evidence of the former, I would point to all of the first-year engineering students who drop their major because they struggle with the work. These people have same educational opportunities at the collegiate levels as those who don't drop. There may be inequalities with primary and secondary educational opportunities that follow a student into college, but this is not the problem in all cases. In the terminology of Michael Porter, this is an almost perfect moat: it limits barrier to entry, it's widely accepted by those who must pay higher prices as a result, and it costs little to enforce. Contrast the latter point with medical careers, whose practitioners must pay much in time and money to dig an institutional moat that prevents competitors from entering their employment market. If software is indeed eating the world, this problem will only get worse.