Why do Web3/Metaverse skills keep getting listed as "must-haves"? Am I missing something, or are the economics of a Web3 job somehow more attractive than working at Google or Netflix? Sounds to me like these articles are getting written by special interests, since the average programmer will likely never explore cryptography, finance or deep-learning. They're domain-specific topics, often dominated by domain-specific professionals who "every programmer" cannot compete with.

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FTFY

What about useful, generic skills like typing, scripting, or Unix tools?

Learning those will pay dividends for decades.

I'd prefer if more programmers learned about the hardware so that they could start to move away from bloatware.