techlead is a scammer and says controversial things on purpose, but i agree with a lot of his takes, not all, but he's not a dummy.

i watched this one the other day and it's the same type of stuff he has reiterated before. but in general, he's talking to the people who think they will do coding and become rich when his point is, you're either going to get geo-arbitraged by someone in India or China, or you're not going to be good enough anyway.

he's saying the US should play to its strength of being a culture leader and trend setter. it's a bit dystopian , but if you build a brand, via influencing or other bollocks, you are the value and you cant be geo-arbitraged or replaced so easily with chatgpt etc

his bitcoin point is correct too.

But if a person wants to code and is passionate about it, obviously they will pursue the interest and probably have some success. the person that said 'i better learn coding to make money' would probably not have been any good anyway