Bullshit. There’s infinite useful work to be done. Everything broken, inefficient, unjust is work to be done. Every business idea anyone fails to launch, every

Bullshit. There’s infinite useful work to be done. Everything broken, inefficient, unjust is work to be done. Every business idea anyone fails to launch, every improvement anyone fails to implement is money left on the table. I just helped a client launch a tool that captures her decades of specialized knowledge and skill. Now her new hires can do work as well as she does. I charged a lot, but it was worth it because I created even more value. The key here is that even if she could have done it she’d still be creating that value. The reason the computer industry has persisted is that computers are tools for multiplication of effort. Did you ever wonder when businesses would catch on and stop spending so much money on computers? They never did. Because computers create more value than they cost. Excel allows regular people to do difficult businesses projections because it’s a powerful tool. That’s why businesses keep spending money on it. If everyone learns to code we get more work done. Every beneficial software tool gets built. (Ever been at work and thought, man this would be so much faster if “random specialized software tool” existed?) Computers are just tools. Tools help us do work faster, better, with less error. Everyone learning to use powerful tools makes everyone more powerful, multiplies the value of their efforts. But also, not everyone wants to or has the temperament to code. Civilization is specialization.