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> Yes, a lot of software products fail, but automation is increasingly driving capital growth and replacing labor. The p2p gig economy does cut out a lot of bur
by gridlockd 7y ago
> Yes, a lot of software products fail, but automation is increasingly driving capital growth and replacing labor. The p2p gig economy does cut out a lot of bureaucracy, and AI advances... both of which were hard to predict in '08.
The gig economy may cut out "a lot of bureaucracy", but it's replacing it with other forms of pointless work.
I don't think this is more true anywhere than in software. How many AngularJS developers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Never mind, we're rewriting the frontend in React.
- mattmanser 7y agoI'm interested how you and the GP think it reduces bureaucracy? Surely it's more, now a bunch of "contractors" have to do loads of company admin off the clock. It's just a dodge, shifting bureaucracy and costs from a company onto an individual who's being forced to masquerade as a company. And possibly a flash in the pan, it is certainly possible the gig economy will be an illegal working practice in 20 years time in socially progressive countries.