Of course. Just as not everybody is cut out to be an athlete or a musician, not everybody has the abilities to make them a (semi-)competent programmer. Program

Of course. Just as not everybody is cut out to be an athlete or a musician, not everybody has the abilities to make them a (semi-)competent programmer. Programming requires very abstract, logical thinking - not everyone's brain works like that. Learning programming also requires a ton of patience and determination (chasing all those bugs) as well as the ability to learn large amounts of arcane syntax by heart. Not everybody has these skills, or the grit necessary to put in the required hours of training. And why should they? I don't see this as any kind of huge societal problem... After all, we don't go around demanding that everybody should be able to work as a carpenter, or a lawyer, or a surgeon. You do what you do best, and that's all there is to it.