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Yea seriously, coding schools are not gonna happen for many people with not the best education.. I mean I know tons of smart people who don't want to write code
by xt00 10y ago
Yea seriously, coding schools are not gonna happen for many people with not the best education.. I mean I know tons of smart people who don't want to write code even though they could do it. So the trade school thing can be economically explained very simply:
Current situation in 2017:
I pay a plumber to fix my pipes $800 for 2 hours of work. Ouch.
1000 other people in my area pay that same amount. $800,000 USD has been transferred from many different people rich or poor to the plumbers.
Future, where we have more plumbers competing for the same job:
Job costs $400.
1000 people pay only $400k to get the job done. So the people in that area have $400k more in their pockets to spend on other things.
The now greater number of plumbers all make less money than the small number of plumbers that existed before. However, you have maybe 50 plumbers in an area instead of 25. So you have more people who are working a job that keeps them alive and busy and happy and far less likely to be doing drugs and likely they will have kids and get married.
So basically the concept of asking a community to cover the cost of paying for trade schools for more people is I think extremely smart to do. And the people who get cheap education to do these trades generally are going to feel pretty happy about that as well -- like "hey people in my area care about people doing these jobs..., so I'm a valuable person in my community.."