It is not ageism, it is supply and demand, as simple as that. How many people had access to computers 25 - 30 years ago? Very few, like me, and we were privile

It is not ageism, it is supply and demand, as simple as that. How many people had access to computers 25 - 30 years ago? Very few, like me, and we were privileged. Getting time to learn with a computer was expensive like getting knowledge about programming them. For example computer APIs were on books you had to buy. You also had to spend so much time fixing your computer's BSD(blue screen of death), making your (software)modem to work, or your Linux distribution to install when it was all from the command line. Now everybody can buy a Raspi for 40 dollars and connect it to TV and it just works. Everybody can access top quality tutorials on youtube, all the APIs and other documentation is online. People in Ghana, Kenya or India can share a Raspi computer and learn. Chinese could also start buying them. While the West access to tech privilege persist, the gap is narrower and narrower over time. This means there are a hundred times more programmers than in the past, specially young people. If they can compete with you watching youtube channels, they will, obviously. If you have certain age with only programming knowledge you are not privileged anymore. This is tough for some people to understand. I remember when knowing HTML alone could earn you lots of bucks. Not happening anymore.