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>> taxi drivers invest more money than software developers > Citation needed. Pretty sure that for the price of a car, including maintenance, you could pay fo
by cool-RR 11y ago
>> taxi drivers invest more money than software developers
> Citation needed.
Pretty sure that for the price of a car, including maintenance, you could pay for a nice workstation and multiple monitors with lots of "expensive" software on a subscription model.
> You are assuming that everyone who develops software is employed as a software developer. There is fine work done by hobbyists and independents.
If you're developing open-source software, you can probably get a free license for many IDEs. If you're both a hobbyist, don't want to release your software as open-source, and expect to be given top-rate tools for a cheap price...
- EthanHeilman 11y ago>Pretty sure that for the price of a car, including maintenance, you could pay for a nice workstation and multiple monitors with lots of "expensive" software on a subscription model. Most taxi drivers don't own their own car. The person that owns the car and own the medallion taxes the driver, typically but not always, a percentage of the drivers income[0]. [0]: http://work.chron.com/much-fare-taxi-drivers-keep-22871.html http://work.chron.com/much-fare-taxi-drivers-keep-22871.html