[zucker42]

I don't completely disagree but

> you get paid a lot less

Isn't that the point? That is, the argument is right now the money goes to the devs, management, and stockholders, when it rightfully should go to those people damaged by the software (or toward preventing them from being damaged).

> the companies and industries move very slowly

How much of this is due to liability law and how much is due to natural aspects of the relevant technology? Liability law may be part of the reason, but software probably naturally moves faster than other engineering fields.

[etripe]

> Isn't that the point?

If the money is supposed to go towards people preventing damage, wouldn't that include devs?

> How much of this is due to liability law and how much is due to natural aspects of the relevant technology?

I can only speak from my own experience in biotech, but moving slowly was due to a lot of compliance box-ticking that didn't actually contribute a lot to either safety, reducing defect rate or meeting requirements. Conway's law applied: since bio engineers and lab techs move slowly, so did the software org.