IMO the problem is defining oneself as non-technical. Anyone can learn any topic if willing and with necessary resources. Some people make it part of their identity that they wont learn certain skills.
Tech is nowadays like literacy. Imagine a person saying I am not literate, instead of trying to learn to read and write, at least to a degree.
I think it is a status problem. Some people think of management as higher status than operational roles, and they do not want to be seen doing the low-status tasks. While it can pay well, tech seems for the general population as respectable as a mechanic or a chef, but not as a lawyer or a doctor (generalizing too much to try to get the point accross)
On another note, sql was supposedly intended to be used by "business people" but developers are instead the ones using it. In general, a business type wants to loosely specify the needs and get some body worry about the details.
I am talking here about the typical archetypes. Of course the best business people are not afraid of digging into details and learning, but for the average ones I found some generalizations apply.
Tech is nowadays like literacy. Imagine a person saying I am not literate, instead of trying to learn to read and write, at least to a degree.
I think it is a status problem. Some people think of management as higher status than operational roles, and they do not want to be seen doing the low-status tasks. While it can pay well, tech seems for the general population as respectable as a mechanic or a chef, but not as a lawyer or a doctor (generalizing too much to try to get the point accross)
On another note, sql was supposedly intended to be used by "business people" but developers are instead the ones using it. In general, a business type wants to loosely specify the needs and get some body worry about the details.
I am talking here about the typical archetypes. Of course the best business people are not afraid of digging into details and learning, but for the average ones I found some generalizations apply.