I know the bar is pretty high in terms of what is passable as a programmer that works actual gigs. It's higher than a lot of other professions, where credentials mean more than actual performance and you can fudge/bs your way out of many situations. So it's fine if someone wants to try more power to them. Anyone can potentially do it, but to do it at a commercial level you can't just pass yourself off you have to be relatively good at what you do... otherwise you won't get hired or get fired rather quickly.
If I weren't politically libertarian already, they probably would have pushed me in that direction. Beware the military-industrial complex indeed.
Part of the reason why I support UBI is the number of people I already see receiving a basic+ income and benefits in exchange for doing a job that doesn't really have any rationally justifiable reason for existing.
