Bubbles will continue to grow and collapse, but throughout it all, programming will increasingly become a blue collar job. I mean that both in terms of accessibility to the lower classes, and in terms of social status granted once you've made it into the industry.

This news is just one small sliver of that larger picture.

(And for the record, I welcome this. I just hope the workers get their act together and learn the lessons those other workers had to learn the hard way over the past centuries/decades.)