the tech sector is usually regarded as the best paying (or best price-per-effort?) sector of the job market here, and the governments over the years have been making a big deal out of getting as many people working in tech as possible, "to combat rising prices" (this is not exclusive to here, but what seems to be different from other places, is how extremely prominent it is in our public debate)

this obsession, combined with the worldwide trend of destroying whole job sectors that billionaires don't like (journalism, music, writing, social studies, etc), and our already spiraling real estate and food markets, leads to a lot of people either leaving other career paths or simply never even aiming for other career paths that would actually benefit the local community more, and instead learning to be programmers

some of my friends work in tech, helping billionaires get richer through ads and tracking (which i did too to survive up until a few years ago, so no judgement) but they would so obviously could have been doing so much more good for our city/country/society and probably(?) for themselves -- if only they could work in non-tech fields and still maintain a middle class standard of living in a non-car-dependent, urban environment