The irony in this "What Schools Don't Teach" is that none of the people portrayed got rich programming.
I think coding is a pretty neat and unique skill set that is relatively limitless. And, if this isn't true, I think I'll just keep thinking that it is true, because it keeps my head in the game.
> Yeah you could be a writer and write a novel people love, or a painter, etc. But none of these things pay particularly well.
For a few it does; Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, E.L. James -- they're all millionaires. Not quite billionaires like Gates or Zuckerberg, but rich nonetheless. By comparison, the vast majority of writers aren't rich, but neither are the vast majority of programmers.
Yea, "you could get rich by coding", but learning to code in order to get rich is about as sound of a strategy as playing the lottery.