Most people can't program not because they are unable to learn but because they are unwilling to learn. You don't have to be capable of  learning rocket science, just capable of learning something of the same complexity as algebra.

Take a class full of 14 year olds. Give each kid a deck of cards. Ask each to come up with a new card game. Most won't do it. Of those that don't do it, a large number will not do it because they can't. Of those that do do it, a large number of the games will be new games in the same way that Scrabulous is a new game.

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There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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