[paulddraper]

When you buy something from Amazon Prime and it gets there three weeks later, I hope you are as amused by the "negotiating process."

(Yes, I know, the product you build is different than manufacturing, different than construction, different than paperwork, and every other deliverable.)

[dredmorbius]

Commoditised manufacture, inventory management, and shipping are pretty much precisely the opposite of software development.

Or: your entirely counterfactual counterexample rather neatly proves my point.

[paulddraper]

Software development is commoditised. Or at least a lot is. Static web sites, simple mobiles apps, etc. Some individuals or organizations build them over and over with regularity.