&gt; What other lucrative professional industry is this easy to break into?<p>It&#x27;s only easy if you&#x27;re an autodidact and have high-level English proficiency. In reality it&#x27;s easy for the people it&#x27;s easy for, but 95% of the population is still excluded.<p>Programming as a skill will be completely commoditized in the next ten years. But some developers will still make good salaries, because as the world gets more interconnected the value of being a winner in a winner-take-all market is only increasing.