The fact is that our pseudo-liberal market is extremely dysfunctional and doesn’t offer meaningful opportunity to most people who didn’t get technical degrees.

The fact is that our pseudo-liberal market is extremely dysfunctional and doesn’t offer meaningful opportunity to most people who didn’t get technical degrees. A healthy society cannot run on pure software engineering, and cannot offer meaningful work only to its brightest nerds and most unscrupulous thieves. It’s good and right to notice this, and the solution is not that the nerds and thieves should consider dribbling a few extra scraps to the poors (at this point, everyone else). No, I don’t think knowing how to perform an affine transform justifies a 20x better salary than the common man has access to. The vast majority of folks in tech are not building rocket ships and flying cities.