> Artificial scarcity is why you get paid big bucks. You are assuming that my software is distributed. Look 50 years ago you got a catalog from sears. You mai

> Artificial scarcity is why you get paid big bucks. You are assuming that my software is distributed. Look 50 years ago you got a catalog from sears. You mailed a check, someone opened it, your order went to the warehouse, the check went to the bank, your items got picked packed and shipped. The software I spent a good part of my career writing got rid of a LOT of people from that scenario. The hardware and software combination that is the ATM got rid of many tellers. MP3's killed record stores. If you find a programer old enough, they will insult you by saying "I will replace you with a very small shell script". Many of us built software to replace people, many of us continue that. Our value is literally reducing costs and "enabling scale" at a massive discount. For those of us that do this sort of work, we are massively underpaid when compared to the manual processes that are replaced or never have to happen.