[airstrike]

> 33% physics, 33% chemistry, and 33% engineering

How about financing investments, accounting, sales, supply-chain logistics and managing the business?

[madaxe_again]

You can have all those things - but without a steam engine your mine is staying full of water, and your industrial revolution isn’t happening.

Don’t know why you need supply chain logistics for a subsistence farm, because that’s the best you’ll get without physics.

[airstrike]

You can have all those things - but without someone to invest in and run the business, your steam engine won't be operational.

Don't know why you need physics for a steam engine with no motion, because that's the best you'll get without money. That's if it ever goes beyond the blueprint.

[wott]

They obviously make up the remaining 1%.

[killjoywashere]

Hah! We finally found the one-percenters!

[perl4ever]

What about human resources and project coordination?!

[TeMPOraL]

What about catering and sanitation and security?

Seriously though, I don't think the point behind counting value created by every dependant into dependencies is necessarily a bad one. Surely there must be some mathematical concept that would allow to "balance" the value in a dependency network of industries.

[goatinaboat]

What about catering and sanitation and security?

You jest but all those people are listed before the post-credits scene of any blockbuster movie

[airstrike]

I thought about HR after hitting the reply button but figured there was no way I was going to think of every function! I cleared my conscience by mentally bucketing all of those under "managing the business" ;-)