As if any of those companies aren’t hiring from a small subset of the American population that has “culture fit.”
This type of “evangelizing” of tech is dangerous because it assumes all things being equal. This cultural blindness is why a liberal arts degree is important, why history is important, and why con-men (Jason Calacanis isn’t ignorant – he surely knows why this is dangerous) like this shouldn’t be listened to.
Is learning how to code good – sure, much like any skill, one can find plenty of enrichment. Learn for yourself, build stuff, get a gig with it, I’m all for it – but to pretend it’s some sort of cureall for poverty?
Yuck.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 