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"You then come to the conclusion that helping sell more ads isn't how you want to look back on your life ..."

Software has been commoditised. The number of people making a career out of "selling software" continues to decline.

The Fortune 500 uses free software.1 Software quality is not correlated to price.

People work for (computer) "tech" companies and are ostensibly paid to write software, but fewer and fewer are trying to sell it. The companies are only sustained through sales of advertising services. None can survive by selling the work of programmers.

1. Meanwhile, companies increasingly overpay for web hosting and use of third party data centers.