Less than a millennium ago, the idea of making reading (let along writing) an "everyman" skill boggled the minds of people like yourself - the already literate who had pretty comfortable jobs because they had a skill that maybe 2.5% had. Fast forward about 400 years and more people can read than those who can't (at least in developed countries)
Perhaps the reason you're stuck in this old mindset is because you see programming only as a means of employment, and not a basic skill that nearly every will have in a couple of centuries. Not being able to program will be akin to not being able to read, and we'll have developed a wealth of special needs programs to help those who can't hack it.
Perhaps the reason you're stuck in this old mindset is because you see programming only as a means of employment, and not a basic skill that nearly every will have in a couple of centuries. Not being able to program will be akin to not being able to read, and we'll have developed a wealth of special needs programs to help those who can't hack it.