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> You provide anecdata of your experience but no evidence of substance really. If you are a brilliant programmer in the US what short of a crippling health/per

• Mezzie 4y ago
  Curious what you would have those of us IN that group do? I'm far from a brilliant programmer, but I did start as a 4-year old back in the 90s and I'm competent. I also got MS in my last semester of grad school. Why is the grandparent commenter's experience a worthy anecdote and my is not? In order to know, we'd have to somehow control for inborn programming ability and run a large study comparing career/material results after several decades, which clearly we (currently) can't do. (And this is without getting into other factors you can't control: There were plenty of people who were happy to accept help and do projects with me until they found out I was a.) female and b.) a teenager at the time.) I ask because the answer seems to be 'sucks for you but the system is designed for the average person'. Okay, so why are we assuming the average person has no uncontrollable roadblocks?