>>7511191It's still a decent way to make money, but man are they pushing hard against letting white men have these jobs. If there's a human resources department, don't expect to get past it.
The most important thing about programming is that it's one of very few ways you can get together with a few like-minded people, and build a product to sell to businesses or the public, with no special credentials or regulatory approval needed, and only a few thousand dollars each. In fact, some guys can go it entirely alone, starting with nothing but credit cards and self-taught skills. This also means you can get in with programming shops when they're already making money, but are still run by a couple of white guys who directly do the hiring and don't have to worry about the diversity agenda yet.
Minecraft was a solo project for years. The guy became a millionaire selling it directly to the public, then sold out for billions. There will be more Minecrafts, and for every Minecraft, there are thousands of successful programming ventures that quietly make the programmers wealthy without becoming international news.
Coding ability is freedom. Even if your technical skills are less than spectacular, your ability to express your own ideas gives you a tremendous power which most workers still don't possess. Imagine being able to read and write when only about 1% of the population is functionally literate. You'd have a big advantage, right?
Being a programmer is only going to get more powerful as robotics continues to advance. For now, the biggest drawback is that the programs you write generally can't do physical work. That's changing. What we may see is something like the medieval era, when relatively few talented professional warriors dominated society, because with the technology of their time, they could defeat much larger numbers of peasant levies.
