practical benefits of programming?

have you guys made your own program? not a school project or something from a tutorial. nothing work related either. not hacking or sys admin related stuff either.

how would a normal person benefit from programming?

tl;dr uses of programming for non-professionals. I can't think of a way learning programming can help me, unless I was working at some company which required me to program

>I know enough that I would not get tricked into deleting a system32 file

That doesn't require anything more than basic computer knowledge and not being a complete fucking retard. That said, you have the right attitude.