Although programming is a wonderful profession with unique benefits ranging from philosophy to economic value of being able to code (not mentioning the fun aspects of it): If everyone on this planet would be a programmer, we might loose all the views and opinions of people that see the world from a different angle that their professions encourages them to view things from.
There's a difference between being able to think logically and do some simple algebra and being a professional mathematician; similarly, there's a difference between being able to craft a half-decent spreadsheet and being a top-notch programmer. Still, these skills are quite useful even if you only know the "basics".
