A lot of managers think it's their job to decide what the quantity of things is. Like in an assembly line, we need 30 turbo encabulators at X price and it's you

A lot of managers think it's their job to decide what the quantity of things is. Like in an assembly line, we need 30 turbo encabulators at X price and it's your job to make it. Software has an infinite quantity of numbers to use as tools to build an end product. A programmer's job is to decide what general ideas end up as what specific quantities. A manager cannot decide this, lest he do the programming job himself. Money is a great tool for measuring quantities of material goods, or the value of material properties. But electricity provides infinite quantities, exchanging money for programmer time is closer to exchanging two forms of currency (binary numbers and dollars) for one another. Code is a constantly transforming river of numbers that we make a draw-down into a bucket that we call an end product. That is not a quantity of material good like iron ore, at all. The factory model simply doesn't work and producing code should be treated closer to the stock market than the factory model. Early access/kickstarter/pay-over-time business models in video games represent an example of the constant transformation model working successfully. Business apps should be built by crazy people who will build them anyway and money holders should bet & invest in them like stocks that raise and lower value over time, rather than as promised end goods.