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by beecafe 1535 days ago
You don't get paid for solving the problem, you get paid for transforming the problem using software such that people become dependant on software to "solve" it. Now you can charge them for it. You can also insert software into places where no problems have been yet identified, make them dependant on it and then charge them for it.
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Existenceblinks 1535 days ago
This guy knows how business works. If everybody think hard enough, software is not needed in lots of situation. The market is all about forced solution, probably plus some network effect, social value yada yada that keep it alive.
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arcturus17 1535 days ago
> If everybody think hard enough, software is not needed in lots of situation

Yea, if you think hard enough, you can have communications sent by horse, instead of by electronic mail.

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Existenceblinks 1535 days ago
No, your example is daily infrastructure people already have. Maybe I say it too broad, there is layer of tool. You only need a few of them.
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arcturus17 1535 days ago
> your example is daily infrastructure people already have

Of daily infrastructure people already have, because someone dared turn it into software?

> You only need a few of them.

I guess we can keep email, but we should strip all the software layer from waste management plants, or the archiving systems of national libraries and museums, or the operating systems that support the browsers we're typing this from, or the avionics from passenger planes, or whatever you decide is the right number of software applications.

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Existenceblinks 1535 days ago
> whatever you decide is the right number of software applications

You hit right on the nail, so I don't generally disagree with you. This is how business works, there is no number! Consumerism works the same kind of way.

[Shifted-goal] Also I don't want to stop or reduce it either, I just want more quality of software, not some VC-pipedream-hype driven software.

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arcturus17 1535 days ago
> You don't get paid for solving the problem, you get paid for transforming the problem using software such that people become dependant on software to "solve" it

Yes, the entire software industry is akin to crack dealers.

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