> But programmers, as a species, have gotten acculturated to salt mines as a natural habitat. They will think nothing of it. Hilarious and I wholeheartedly ag

> But programmers, as a species, have gotten acculturated to salt mines as a natural habitat. They will think nothing of it. Hilarious and I wholeheartedly agree with the elitist sentiment. Every programmer should treat themselves to some dabbling with a Racket #lang at some point, if only for the great documentation. It’s a beautiful lisp dialect with quite a few weird twists. Wholesome and chock-full of human ingenuity. I would add that there probably is an economic aspect to it as well here. Programmers do generally love to solve problems - doesn’t matter if they are the actual root cause of much incidental complexity themselves - and they also love to get paid well for it. React based SPAs, distributed systems with Kubernetes, etc all treasure troves of endless solutions to endless problems which need lots of highly skilled peole. If you think about it from a worker’s perspective there is actually not much wrong with that. Indeed, inferior is better for many.