What this really highlights is that humans are currently interested in creating barriers to entry to their profession to selfishly protect their salary and employment security at the cost of slowing down societal progress.
Are you saying that engineers, doctors, lawyers etc. have an obligation to teach others for free? And to shoulder any and all costs associated? Are you also suggesting that junior programmers are entitled to the unpaid labour of mentors?
And what about teachers generally? Isn't teaching an important skill that deserves remuneration? Doesn't offering free tuition drive down the value of teachers? Should these people be improverished for (one) sense of "societal progress"? I'm not sure I can agree.
However I am definitely sure that the statistics show that the highest paid professions in this country require lots of licensing and schooling, which carry non-zero costs for obtaining.
Software engineering does not exhibit this same behavior, or at least if it does, it is orders of magnitude less. I don't see many blog posts on how to do appendix surgery, for example.
