Yeah, I was kind of afraid to say this, but software is getting really efficient at so many things, so free markets just decided to reward software. Just like

Yeah, I was kind of afraid to say this, but software is getting really efficient at so many things, so free markets just decided to reward software. Just like everything, once there is an evolution, if you're out of it, you're obsolete and you matter less. Just made me think about this article where those few indispensable engineers that get a high pay. In a capitalist environment, technological improvement goes fast (although technology was also developed under soviet russia), and the reward gets very concentrated. Property means that innovation is not really shared, only sold. One could endlessly talk about how IT seeds from the internet technologies being developed from DARPA and made public. Hard to say if markets really improved what DARPA developed, IMHO I'd say no.