I am sometimes thankful for the stupidity that non tech people carry with themselves. It's because of them I can make money and survive.

Thinking of it as stupidity is in my opinion harsh. I am ignorant of the way my body acts and needs to be treated. For that I refer to the expert that spent X amount of years in medical school. That does not make you or me stupid, it just means that we confide in the academic and professional experience of someone else.

It is the same thing for our field, not everyone can be an I.T specialist, so it is fine for them to come to us.

Eschew elitist ideals

That's how a highly specialised work-share society operates. By consequence, nearly everyone is an idiot in nearly every domain.

It's just that especially devs take all of the other contributions as a given while at the same time overrating their own. Or even refuse to contribute and instead claim that the non-specialists of their domain would need to acquire specialist knowledge.

Which in turn is just an example of being an idiot in understanding even basic concepts of our society.

@AleCx04 @Fast-Nop

Let me give you a real example. I have a public repository on my YT channel which is quite difficult to get configured and started with.

So I posted a video called "Laravel Project Setup" and laid out step by step how to set it up.

The fact that people still can't follow it and I made $1350 USD because of that (multiple people paid me, combined) is what I'm thankful for.

There you go.

BTW Internet NPC I know you're reading this and I'm not gonna respond to you. Keep crying for my attention.

@AleCx04

While I agree with you, I think the mindset comes from the fact that while you won't argue with your doctor over your diagnosis and such, everyone and their mother who knows how to click a mouse seems entitled to argue technical aspects with us.

I roughly agree, but it isn't really a tech-person-or-not thing. Lots of people, including in tech sometimes, just seem to not read documentation, follow instructions or generalise. It's very annoying.