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Congratulations, you are smart enough, and literate enough, to learn software engineering.

Meanwhile the average American reads at a 5th grade level, and around 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate.

I'm guessing you also didn't have any chronic health conditions. Traumatic brain injury that keeps you from remembering things, or a form of PTSD that causes you to be unable to function in loud environments.

A lot of us in the technology field started off with very little and fought our way up to having something. Those of us with empathy realize it was a combination of hard work and a lot of other things going right as well that we didn't have control over.

They also expect people to be homeless and live in a tent, while collecting cans to earn the $200 to buy the cheapest possible laptop, and somehow be able to focus on learning software engineering while doing all that.

So all poor people should become computer programmers, and then the jobs formerly done by those formerly poor people will be done by ... who?

By robots... duh, (that seems the dream of techno-futurists, ain't it ?)

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