“Just Learn To Code.”

We’re unfortunately removing some of the stability from the economy. That doesn’t seem to bode super well.

This was posted on Reddit, I believe, a few days ago and trended. In reality, this is probably a very disaffected Bay Area mom who last encountered any real struggle in 1992, and now she’s using the Internet to complain about how STEM camp didn’t pay off and her son cannot find a target compensation job of $580,000. It reeks of privilege and annoyance, and I think most people who responded to it and elevated it up the Reddit chain did so out of contempt and not much more.

But still, there is something here. To wit:

• Tens of thousands of tech workers were laid off in 2024, with apparently August 2024 being a big blood-letting month.
• We know AI is coming, especially for entry-level type gigs involving coding, math, data-sorting, etc.
• We know there’s this whole fight at the governmental level about visas and whether America should give tech jobs to (checks notes) lazy Americans who worship Zach Morris or (checks notes again) Indians who weren’t born here, with (checks notes yet again) some stuff about America-first and capitalism’s need for indentured servitude spliced in.
• Lots of people cannot find jobs, as…