"Just Learn To Code."
As the economy shifts and shifts underneath our feet, this is not the advice it once was.
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:
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