Hi graderjs, In latching onto the elitism angle, you might have misunderstood the point I'm trying to make. It's not that software people are so much smarter

Hi graderjs, In latching onto the elitism angle, you might have misunderstood the point I'm trying to make. It's not that software people are so much smarter or better than other professionals. It's that software engineers (and possibly professionals in general, but this goes beyond my realm of significant experience) are more intelligent on average than a random person off the street. For example, look at Instagram comments sometime. They tend towards truly unreadable nonsense. The people pushing out these gems are the kind of randos I'm referring to. To be clear, I'm not saying software people's average mental capacity exceeds that if plumbers, doctors, bankers, etc. Only that on average it's way above the true average intelligence of the general public population. A long time I worked on a free messaging app. In debugging issues I occasionally had to look at random selections of messages from the DB (conversation history), and it was utterly depressing. The average human is much lower, depressingly so, than I had previously fathomed.