I think you may be understating the point. So much of the meaning and value in our world is now tangled up in computers, even a modest amount of skill programmi

I think you may be understating the point. So much of the meaning and value in our world is now tangled up in computers, even a modest amount of skill programming makes you some level of god in an increasingly reified domain. Yes, we live in a society and skill at society still dominates, but programming now probably surpasses finance and takes second place in terms of effective levers to have and use.