No, but when Microsoft was founded, the pathway was open to Bill Gates since he went to a $$$$ elite private school which could afford a computer. That's right.

No, but when Microsoft was founded, the pathway was open to Bill Gates since he went to a $$$$ elite private school which could afford a computer. That's right. One computer. Today, that path is open to everyone. The idea isn't that everyone will write code. The idea is that everyone will have the opportunity to learn, and if 1% run with it, that's 3 million programmers in the US, and 80 million worldwide. I have no idea what that percentage is (5%? 0.1%), but whatever it is, it's a skill that's growing much less exclusive.