If a new tech just out competes/obsoletes you, it's irrelevant whether you like it or not or from whom it comes from.
Sure you can just ignore it's existence but it will still slow you down.
If you're talking about useless tech like home AI assistants or IoT "smart" appliances, I absolutely agree with you.
Dude you’re totally missing my point 😂😅 so please allow me to be clear:
1. To your og point, I don’t deny programming skills have significant and broad value in “today’s economy”
2. Nor that, by conventional standards, such skills would be a boon
(Ignoring for the moment obvious counterpoints regarding the utility of specialization, and resulting decrease of previously considered “pragmatic skills” within populations of growing economies)
But as to my point: what IS a boon? Wealth? Power? Those don’t mean the same thing to everybody. To some, including many who are rich in both, they’re nothing at all.
And what does it mean to be “slowed down”? A lot of people say that’s exactly what they want. Others blame technology for doing exactly that — “taking” their time (via maintenance duties, bad habits, etc.) they’d rather spend on other things.
(And as to the Cynics, like Diogenes, they’d *reject* such conventional standards, and live “like dogs”)
Hence why so many don’t hold BTC. They can see the initial cost-to-entry, and despite potential long term profit (via anti-inflationary hodling, etc.) this initial cost of learning and effort would “slow them down” from the OTHER things they’d rather be doing.
