This summer, more young people than ever will be engaged in app development. When you think of app designers, you probably imagine shaggy 25 year olds with an idea for a hyper-efficient mobile payment system burning in their hearts like a $1.75 Jesus candle. Ambitious, slightly insane college or post-college people will probably always lead when it comes to software imagineering, but increasingly, the very young are becoming involved. And it’s bullshit.Listening to an NPR story about teen summer unemployment, which is maybe twice what it was during boom times, I was made aware that more young people than ever are attending 24/7 app camps. The story reasoned that smart young people may not want to waste their time on low-paying jobs when they can learn valuable app skills. Parents may consider competitive college admissions and then decide to shell out a huge wad of cash in exchange for life skills in the unreality industry. I suppose it has a sickening logic to it: if you can afford to keep your kid out of the workforce, why not send them to the trendiest, most sickeningly competitive and failure-ridden sector of the economy?Read the rest over at Motherboard
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