Don't like to go against everyone but this not particularly well written.

It's a long winding absurdist metaphorical tale, that is really more or less a rant. It's not particularly well grounded.

It's a nice piece of personalized fiction, but it's not particularly good writing and nothing approaching what we'd think of as 'journalism'.

Yeah, I fancy myself a decent writer but I am not anywhere close to this good. Very engaging, you can tell they're writing from the heart.

I mean he could be, though nowadays that's not really a recongition of skill some seem to think it is nowadays.

Besides this is an opinion piece, which contains passages comparing programmers who despite AI, make hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting at home or air conditioned offices, to bangladeshi indentured workers.

Even if we do away with hyperbole and take the 'Sara' example, programming are still one of the least physically demanding and best paid jobs out there, especially in the US, even compared to jobs needing hard qualifications. Compared to your hypothetical 'Sarah' keeping the payroll system alive, almost everyone in every profession does more work for less pay.

He also sells (I imagine not cheap) consulting on the side.