[robocat]

I am interested in your parallel universe where software doesn't underpin every business... What line of business do you work in that doesn't need software for accounting, banking, invoicing, payroll, communications, yadda yadda.

Consumer software doesn't run the world. I think your negative examples of software scams and hucksters are consumer based.

> just to skirt the laws and scam VCs

VCs are not generally seen as victims!

> you still need an actual plumber to show up in person to fix

And that plumber depends directly or indirectly on plenty of software to get their job done, from the basics of getting paid to the more complex of sourcing parts. And they use a mobile phone, which is 99.9% software with a little bit of hardware.

[Rinzler89]

>VCs are not generally seen as victims!

I never said they were.