[jp555]

Sure as a whole, on average.

But there absolutely is a small minority of extreme producers in most domains.

[unionpivo]

If you take out truck drivers and train operators, most modern cities die in a few weeks.

If every star programmer/engineer died, a lot of things would stop working, but people would at least live long enough to maybe deal with it.

[kjsbfkjbf]

Especially considering many start programmers and engineers seemingly exist to increase revenue of complete luxury services like Netflix.