| How timely: my bicycle's rear tire is a goner. My brother changes it by himself but I only have the skill to take the wheel off and bring it to the shop! > and the greater the chance they’ll conclude they’re working in a bullshit job. OK but you guys all know how many software have been involved in the creation and shipping of that bicycle and all its material? It's software all the way. The 3D modelling, the logistics, all the payment processing making buying/shipping the materials, etc. I won't comment on taxes (on revenues for all the companies involved and on their employees too and on the sale etc.) and all the software that implicates and all the bureaucracy that it allows to thrive because, to me, that is the real bullshit that should be decimated (not reduced to zero but decimated). But anyway many things we enjoy and take for granted exists thanks to and because of software. Put it this way: even if they're similar in that they both have two wheels, I'm not trading an early 20th century for my Specialized (californian company btw even though I'm in the EU) full carbon S-Works (S-Works is the top end from Specialized) bicycle. Thank you very much, software devs, for having made the creation of that wonderful bicycle possible. |