This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Stop teaching kids anything! It will just make wages go down! If you teach every kid to read and write, it wil

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Stop teaching kids anything! It will just make wages go down! If you teach every kid to read and write, it will proletarianize the scribes! </sarcasm> Seriously, though, this is the lump of labor fallacy. There are not a fixed number of jobs that require programming skills. This is a well-known fallacy, and people should not be making arguments that have been discredited for >100 years.