> You want empirical evidence of what I am saying? Remember the excitement around "let's teach everyone to code and they will become app-making entrepreneurs"?

> You want empirical evidence of what I am saying? Remember the excitement around "let's teach everyone to code and they will become app-making entrepreneurs"? How did that go? This is going extremely well, actually. There are more software engineers than ever in the world, and these software engineers are getting paid more than ever. These efforts have been wildly successful, and this consistent progress just keeps marching on, even today (as more as more people choose to become successful engineers.). You might counter by saying something like "but we taught a million people to code and only 100K of them became software engineer!". And this is the wrong line of thinking because getting 100% of them to become software engineers was never the goal. It was never the goal in the same way that teaching people to read and write never had the goal of causing 100% of literate people to become fiction writers, and yet we all agree that reading and writing is a good thing to teach people.