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What you describe is the barrier of entry being lowered, as opposed to positions being eliminated. Fully agree.

Think about the difference between Assembly and Python. Programming will continue to get higher level. Perhaps it won’t be so foolish to ask a truck driver to “learn to code.”

But here is an even more interesting comparison: the salary of someone writing assembly 30 years ago and someone writing Python today. Higher level != paid worse.



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