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Software development isn't an industry like oil refining. Imagine if all the architects or civil engineers were located in a small handful of cities!
by falsedan 7y ago
Software development isn't an industry like oil refining. Imagine if all the architects or civil engineers were located in a small handful of cities!
- davidw 7y agoArchitects and civil engineers mostly work where their services are needed, which makes sense. The economics of their industries are different.
- falsedan 7y agoI don’t know what the point of this fact is. Architects and engineers mostly work from offices, which are usually located so that there is a good pool of potential employees around.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOil workers go to where the oil is. Which is both concentrated and distributed. Software is dematerialised, which means, perversely, it tends to concentrate to a far greater extent. Much as local and regional entertainment, constrained by material proximiy to audience, gave way to Hollywood.