This has been the MBA's wish/dream/hope for about a half-century now: “if only programming were easy and programmers didn’t take so long,” they think, “I could be making millions off of this business.” Since they want this to be true, they reason, it must be true. They then insist, in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary, that programming is easy, and the entire industry of programmers - every single one, including the ones who were educated recently, including the ones from foreign countries - are conspiring against them to make it seem like it’s harder than it really is.