There's nothing special about programming. Everyone wanted to be a trader and banker until 2008. Everyone also wanted to buy a house or be a real estate agent u

There's nothing special about programming. Everyone wanted to be a trader and banker until 2008. Everyone also wanted to buy a house or be a real estate agent until 2008 too. And everyone wanted to be a web developer until 1999. People follow the money signal that an economy broadcasts. You can't blame individuals who want to better their prospects. What we can do is blame the following: 1. Predatory schools (not all) with big price tags producing ill equipped developers 2. Greedy herd like VC's making bad investments that society has to pay for 3. And finally often overlooked, shoddy and uncritical journalism like this article that fail to provide context and attempt at finding the deeper real story