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And those of us who are >15 years in tech from a time when you got (eventually) well paid jobs for knowing how to turn on and off a computer (at first), and being in the right place at the right time (cities that eventually became tech hubs), don’t appreciate how hard it is to get into it now. The field needs people of all backgrounds. But at the same time, the industry has also been transformed by shareholder maximization over technological developments, above all else.

It’s hard to make an argument ‘learn to code’! The ‘better life’ hasn’t exactly always panned out for people who did that through bootcamps and other methods, who don’t have the cultural cachet of top schools and industry relationships. Maybe it did for a while, but no longer, I think.

Look at housing prices of all the tech hubs around the world: they are almost the same, too. Neoliberalism has made a certain same-ness about each one of these cities.