Comment by atemerev

Capitalists want people to be generally happy. Happy people buy more things. People who have useful well-paid jobs are generally happy (and can buy more things). Everybody knows that there will be huge drop in available jobs next few years, but software development skills will still be in high demand. Hence, capitalists want more people to learn how to code, so they could keep their jobs, so they can be generally happy and buy more things.

Capitalism _is_ profit-oriented, but happy people bring more profit.