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> I can’t understand why the market isn’t flooded with coders

let me guess: because not anybody wants to be a programmer? different people have different ambitions, not anybody needs to be a coder

and life would be pretty mundane if all people were doing is writing code

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> because not anybody wants to be a programmer?

Almost anybody who works in retail, manual labor, etc would jump on a job offer for 5x more money, better hours, and better working conditions. The reason they don't is they can't get the offers because the skills are hard to learn.

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