Masad argues that telling people in their 50s who have spent decades in a career to 'learn to code' or go back to school is cruel, and that the government has a responsibility to create programs for displaced workers but is not thinking about the problem. ✦ AI generated
Amjad Masad · Platformer · 2026-08-07 · original ↗
But I also think it's kind of unreasonable to tell someone in their 50s that the skill they've done for 20, 30 years is no longer relevant, and you need to go back to school, or learn something on the weekends. It's cruel. Remember when people used to tell miners 'go learn to code'? And I think there were reporters also — they told them go learn to code when there were layoffs.
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