Why isn't programming taught more in schools?

>more shit code in the world
you're going to kill people pushing this

I'm not talking about them writing applications, just little scripts to help them with the repetitive parts of their jobs. Basically the entire point of computers.

okay, makes sense

The whole point of being able to download executable code is that nobody needs to be a programmer, which actually increases productivity for the group as a whole.

Basic skills are getting more and more useless in society in general, having one extremely difficult to acquire skill matters much more than an ocean of general skills. If you can't be replaced in the one skill then you can find just anyone do to the other things for you.

The entire point of computers is gathering private data and offering ads tho

even simple python scripts are extremely complex for the average worker, and the time required to learn it enough to automate their job is just too much for most people.

To add onto this, a lot of people here have probably been programming for years now, and so they can pick up a new language relatively easy. They're forgetting the stage where they had literally never programmed before. Now think of someone who doesn't even have an interest in technology trying to learn, it will be completely abstract for them.

Nigga, every kid wants to learn to move robots, make games, program music or image whatever, etc

No they don't, they want the computer to do things. They stop caring about programming immediately once someone gives them executable code that does the thing they wanted.

If that was true, why do you think so few of them actually grow up to be those things? The market for those jobs is extremely comfy right now.