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I said from the very start that teaching "everyone to code" was a stupid idea and the only goal was for big companies that invested into it to try to drive down wages in the tech industry.

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>The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.” The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools. Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. If anything, it’s reinforced the tech priesthood instead of breaking it.

I said from the very start that teaching "everyone to code" was a stupid idea and the only goal was for big companies that invested into it to try to drive down wages in the tech industry. Archive: https://archive.today/27sHw From the post: >>The geek answer (bad faith or blindness): “If only everyone learned to code, then society would be fairer.” The activist answer: Code is part of the landscape, but culture, governance, and lived practice matter more. We don’t escape domination by teaching more people to type commands, we escape by changing what we do together with the tools. Why “teach everyone to code” has become a dead-end slogan – it’s been tried, it’s been funded, and yet it hasn’t shifted power one bit. If anything, it’s reinforced the tech priesthood instead of breaking it.
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This has been my experience too. I have worked with some jeets and they usually can (barely) do anything without extremely strict instructions and even then they often fuck up.