> Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parlor game is to ask to what extent world GDP levels are held back by a lack of computer science and technical training.

> Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parlor game is to ask to what extent world GDP levels are held back by a lack of computer science and technical training. Typical Silicon Valley hubris. Imagine how high GDP would grow if we had millions more <literally every skilled field in existence>? They also make the same mistake our clueless political leaders and media make when they tell unemployed coal miners to "learn to code". As if we can just take any person of median intelligence and ambition, send them to bootcamp, and they'll be intrinsic in building the next Google search or Hadoop or some other other product that probably has greatly improved output per worker. Even if software engineering was more respected in our society, and the "best and brightest" who currently go into more prestigious and lucrative fields like finance, medicine, law, policy, etc. were enticed into tech, I'm not so sure you'd see all those extra apps and lines of code translate into improved GDP. Instead, you'd just end up with an arms race between even more big companies to steal marketshare from each other.