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I like where you were going, but sorry - it’s really not a meaningless question at all.

Programming is a skill, and produces tools - tools that help people communicate, inform, solve problems, and more.

(Also, no global community of programmers? Maybe not a single overarching one, but there definitely is one.)

I’ve been programming for 40+ years, I’m not aware of any global community. How do I join? A bunch of people doing the same kind of work is not a “community” to me. Is there a community of car owners? People who wear socks?

I suppose programmers can take some credit for putting cameras in cell phones, but the people using those to document and prosecute racism are not the programmers. I’m sure we’ll see a flurry of apps to track police abuse or something, but I don’t think those will make any difference, because the problem isn’t “not enough software.”

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