Yes, people often think of the baseline as good. This may be true in fields where people only do it for love, like programming back in the day. The absolute d

Yes, people often think of the baseline as good. This may be true in fields where people only do it for love, like programming back in the day. The absolute dominance of computing has created such a draw that the average is in the gutter. Something as simple as pointers is beyond the skill of untold thousands. We don’t have the gatekeepers that medicine and law do, so what to do? Pay more, make more interesting work, etc to filter out the cream, or rather, the previously decent.