> But I just don't see e.g. for-profit bootcamps with their simplified curriculum as any kind of social justice project. And you're right not seeing them that

> But I just don't see e.g. for-profit bootcamps with their simplified curriculum as any kind of social justice project. And you're right not seeing them that way! While I'm sure there are now good-faith bootcamps that have the goal of improving the career options of people who may otherwise never get those, the first time I saw the programming/sysadmin bootcamp concept implemented was around 2002, where a company was recruiting kids still in high school to train them for their openings. They did that because there were not enough skilled IT workers back then. Right, what that really meant is, they did that because there were not enough skilled IT workers they could afford back then. Someone did the math and estimated that for some openings, it would be more profitable to train first-time-job-seekers (in a lot of cases, not-yet-job-seekers) than to offer a better deal. They're still in business so I guess it worked!