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All the other industries have capital. Why doesn't capital tell the younger workers in all those other industries the same seductive lie?
by cwyers 10y ago
All the other industries have capital. Why doesn't capital tell the younger workers in all those other industries the same seductive lie?
- shiven 10y agoMaturity. Not every industry can sustain a "move fast and break things" mentality. Software is fairly young in terms of capital investment growth. Wait till it becomes as boring and grave as manufacturing.
- majormajor 10y agoShort time frames and code quality being less visible to customers than construction or build quality of physical goods. It's a lot easier to build a (really shitty underneath the hood) app without experience than to design or build an airplane without experience. In most cases you can dump a good chunk of your stake for a massive profit before the poor infrastructure and maintenance costs become an issue (the Twitter "fail whale" and rewrites are the outlier here, I think, where the scale came much faster than the payoffs).