I remember ~10 years ago they were trying to get the community to learn COBOL on it's own so they'd have access to cheap programmers. Isn't that how you build

I remember ~10 years ago they were trying to get the community to learn COBOL on it's own so they'd have access to cheap programmers. Isn't that how you build a business or successful organization, by exploiting the everyman for cheap labor? It worked for the ____, so I guess not since nobody fell for it.