The fact that you cannot see that is what I mean, you take what I said as a personal insult while simultaneously having the collective view that if 'poor people want to stop being poor they should learn to code like me' around here.
It's cognitive dissonance and the part that I don't get is how you think people with other skills would want to do this even if given the choice were it not for the money.
I'm a self-taught coder and don't regard myself highly. I will be honest, I never thought it was easy but it's also not difficult in the same way that biochemistry, nuclear chemistry or organic chemistry is difficult either: it's more tedious than it is anything else. It's all relative to what you've done before, I suppose.
It's a lot of grinding, searching and revising and a war of attrition. All while putting up with people who quite frankly have the social skills of a lamppost and not giving into the urge of wanting to just quit and leave it all behind and start a hobby farm--as is so common in the tech circles towards the end.
I can see what you mean, I just don't agree about the skills.
I agree to a large extent about the social skills, and even the hobby farm seeing as I've considered it more than once... but being good in IT requires a wide range of skills.
It feels like most people that enter the field now are here because of the money, which is OK, but that doesn't mean they are any good, many are not, they are just taking advantage of a good opportunity. Again, that is OK.
This is a gig that won't last forever, like having a popular YouTube channel, so there is no reason to read into it any more than "people are jumping on the bandwagon during a gold-rush", and no reason to get so upset about it. There is no more or less social inequality because of IT workers than there was during the "house flipping" trend from a few years back, Crypto, social media influencer channels, etc.
There are a lot of good paying jobs, and no job will ever make you wealthy or powerful, so no reason to get worked up over ordinary working-class people (even if they make 6 figures, it's the 8+ figures that oppress).
If it were easy, everyone would be doing it.