Good Programming Skills include Good Social Skills

Programmers have to work easily with other programmers - and have good technical skills. A combination that is rare today.

Industrialization produced workers, with limited technical skills and limited social skills - they only did what they were told. These cannot be used as programmers.

There were also small businessmen, in the decades after WWII, who had more diverse skills - but these (along with the family farms) no longer exist.

We are left with a declining Industrial Economy, and a growing Digital Economy. The people in the Industrial Economy are much more numerous (maybe 90 percent) and are biased against those in the Digital Economy - who they see as usurpers (people taking their money away from them).

This can be seen most easily in the matter of encryption - that the Digital Economy needs to survive, but is seen as a threat to their security, for the rest. This is class warfare going right before our eyes!