Title: The Brexit crisis has got me thinking about inequality more broadly.Technologists have politicians in their thrall, and are not afraid to throw their weight around promoting curriculum changes in areas like math, and to also push the concept of &quot;every child must code&quot;. Yet these same technologists claim that they hire a small percentage of job applicants for their companies.<p>It&#x27;s clear that cognitive ability correlates with coding ability, and the idea of the 10X developer is widely accepted in our world. As a broader industry, we practice shameless elitism and seem to be making real-world software development more inaccessible to non-experts (apart from child-level development environments). As professionals. we deride RAD tools and &quot;drag and drop&quot; development, and show geek love for ever-more abstract modes of thinking like Functional Programming that a small percentage of working developers, let alone the general public, will grasp.<p>What&#x27;s the end-game? Are we trying to create a new cognitive elite? Is it a labor lottery so that the small percentage of kids who are turn out to be good at coding will become professional programmers? Are we willfully blind to the fact that human talent is not evenly distributed? Or is the lack of accessibility (&quot;easiness&quot;) just a blind spot that we have yet to address?
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