Kind of a depressing read. For some time, the thing pushed was, “Learn to code.” This was touted as a way of finding a decent living for people who didn’t have one, a way out of the scraps of hourly pay unstable work. Now this is essentially saying the reverse: go become an expert in anything but programming.
I understand the promise of coding was always a hollow one that would reach a pinnacle of competitive bloat and, AI or no, struggle to sustain itself. That capitalism likes to provide false promises to distract you from questioning the system as a whole. But it still rankles. Maybe more so because this article is another form of that false promising. Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football. Just go over here and learn this, and you’ll be secure.
Most of us will never be secure under capitalism. The real moat is collective ownership of the means of production. Everything else is window dressing.
That’s basically it, programming itself is a mechanical skill and so it was always ripe for automation. And every bit of automation under capitalism shifts the balance of power in favor of the capital owning class. A proletarian dictatorship is the only long term solution.
Read that as domain expansion and was very confused for a second
