Hardly.
It's the nature of the tech business.
That's not to say these guys are dumb, they just don't have traditional education.
To obtain a CCIE cert one would need an IQ of at least 125 and 10 years of work/study.
The truth of the matter is that the average student graduating High School in the US has a very low chance of getting a $50 per hour job and you and I both know it.
Again if you do not have a technical/trade school cert or a college degree you are at a great disadvantage as my high IQ nephew and Mr. GG2’s high IQ son have learned the hard way.