Software prices have not done anything to help with this. Entire operating systems are “free”. Software that takes tons of effort may be $.99 on an app store.

Software prices have not done anything to help with this. Entire operating systems are “free”. Software that takes tons of effort may be $.99 on an app store. We have been programming non-programmers to undervalue everything for those same 30 years. Probably, software packages should never have fallen below $100. The minimum price on any app store should probably have been $10. Then we might see a valued industry.