This is a natural consequence of an increasing supply of qualified labor. Do you need a college degree to serve coffee? No. Does it have anything at all to do w

This is a natural consequence of an increasing supply of qualified labor. Do you need a college degree to serve coffee? No. Does it have anything at all to do with serving coffee? No. Yet, it's now something sought after among new baristas, who generally earn a hair more than minimum wage. [1] Why? Because there enough people who have a degree that be willing to do this job at these wages to make it a requirement. The consequence of 'get [anybody with a pulse] into coding' is to help increase the supply of people with some coding ability. Out of curiosity I just searched for 'QA job listing' and found stuff like this [2]. A 'senior QA engineer' requires, among other things, a masters in computer science alongside a willingness for unanticipated travel/relocation for "long and short term assignments at client sites." Starting salary? $73k. That's probably an H-1B angle-shoot (H-1B employment requires not displacing American workers, and if nobody applies you're obviously not displacing anybody!) but even then they still have to be able to argue that their request was not entirely unreasonable. [1] - https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/why-that-barista-has-a-college-degree-grade-inflation.html https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/why-that-barista-has-a-col... [2] - https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=5d42d374514328da&fccid=d0458096ad5f3137&vjs=3 https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=5d42d374514328da&fccid=d045...