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>It sounds like we're in violent agreement on this point. It's much, much easier to become a millionaire/billionaire if you can invent/write/build some kind of prototype yourself than by raising investment capital and finding/convincing others to build it for you.

Yes, programming is a useful skill, no argument there.

I'm just saying that some of the people going into law, medicine, etc... would go into programming if the pay was better.




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