Without wanting to be a dick, I'd suggest this is a failure of your imaginative ability, not the failure of, well everyone who doesn't understand data races. T

Without wanting to be a dick, I'd suggest this is a failure of your imaginative ability, not the failure of, well everyone who doesn't understand data races. There are lots and lots if programmers in the world. Some are focused on UI (even on the backend), some on low-level things like graphics, so on hardware some on libraries, and yes, some on data. I say this not to pick on you, but to point out that there are lots of universities, with lots of curricula, all called "computer science". The focus of each is widely diverse, and its likely that my CS degree and your CS degree are very dissimilar.