It's a recent part of our culture to look down on the "uninitiated" and treat them with extreme infantilizing pity almost bordering on actual bullying. I call

It's a recent part of our culture to look down on the "uninitiated" and treat them with extreme infantilizing pity almost bordering on actual bullying. I call it the "temporarily embarrassed future nobel prize winner mindset." I put it down to the level of monopolization of industry and to a certain extent our culture. These people mean well and they're mostly just reacting to a really baffling labor market in the face of a failed and entirely captured internet revolution. With the right pair of eyes you can look across the dunes of github into the early 2000s and see where open source culture peaked, crashed, and rolled back.