| >I think you may have fallen prey to a common misconception about art: Art - not only the modern kind - has and always very much had a "first mover advantage". There is no first mover advantage in a piece that says "I could have done this". Michael Scott from The Office probably did it first. >You could also easily extrapolate your argument about scribbling on the canvas to the realm of software development and argue that creating e.g. Facebook or Amazon or Wikipedia is really nothing special. That would be quite an extrapolation, though. >A few lines of code will get you a usable MVP. There was a documentary about Google on a french tv channel (M6) called Capital. The moment the narrator said "Discover how they built a fortune with a few lines of code", I left. >I'm sure you could have done it (I'm saying this completely unironically). However you didn't. Someone else did it first. I'll argue to your side: I'm not sure I could have done, but I understand what you're saying and I often say this to people who say "I thought of that idea" when they see something successful. I always retort: "Yes, I thought of Uber as well. Have I built it? No. We all have ideas we don't materialize". Here's what I just did. Magritte style piping hot finger: __________________________________________
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