Re: How many computer programmers does society actually need?

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...Then maybe you should have told people what you wanted the thread to be about, and redirected people if you thought it was too far from what you wanted. Clarified (since your "locking" post was not like your OP or thread title), not clarify and then lock. It was still a productive discussion.

And to answer your new question...
1. Not everyone is being retrained to the IT industry
2. Neither "should" everyone be retrained to the IT industry

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And to answer your new question...
1. Not everyone is being retrained to the IT industry
2. Neither "should" everyone be retrained to the IT industry

Well, obviously, but you wouldn't know that from the way some of these Silicon Valley tech-progressive types and their liberal centrist politician handmaidens talk about labor market issues, which was my motivation for starting the thread.

If you insist on continuing this discussion, which I don't agree was productive (I also don't agree that my initial question was in any way unclear but that an inability to think outside the confines of neoliberalism made it so), I'll just unlock the old thread.