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  Being able to write code well is a rare skill, and I think that fact contributed to software being rare among career fields in combining high earning potential with relatively few structural barriers to entry. If you were good at coding you stood a reasonable shot of making it in the industry, even if you presented as neurodiverse/queer/non-WASP, didn’t go to the right school or any school, had a disability that would be difficult to accommodate in other fields, etc (we were by no means perfect...