Start: encouraging ppl to code is evil End: "programming will be indispensable part of active citizenship" https://aeon.co/ideas/coding-is-not-fun-it-s-technically-and-ethically-complex …
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Suspect that this is a failed experiment in virtue-signaling entrepreneurship.
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I.e. an attempt to come up with a new argument that capitalism is bad—massive status!!!—but the pieces didn’t fit together.
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Makes sense to me as a call for seriousness, although framing it against fun intro programming doesn't work.
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IOW not saying "don't teach kids programming" but "teach it as something serious". Which sounds like Papert.
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