Well, that analogy breaks down when you consider how young people are not like CPUs (or whatever counts as the bottom of the stack). CPUs never look at all the

Well, that analogy breaks down when you consider how young people are not like CPUs (or whatever counts as the bottom of the stack). CPUs never look at all the garbage code up the stack and decide it's not worth it. A young woman could hear a lot about how tech is a rough place to work and decide to do something else. So the various parts of the pipeline do affect on another. How much is an empirical question, I suppose.