> Someone out there is deriving value from the android app you're debugging or else it would not be economically viable to keep paying you to do that job. Wher

> Someone out there is deriving value from the android app you're debugging or else it would not be economically viable to keep paying you to do that job. Where does this sort of axiomatic economic thinking come from? Tons of software projects really are completely pointless and will never turn a profit or generate value. And not even in a "the bet was worth making way" -- walk into any Fortune 500 and you'll find whole armies of people doing pointless busy work. Not confined to enterprises, though -- "special projects" are a thing in startups too. I've seen 10% layoffs -- literally workforce decimation -- without a single meaningful change to the economic output of the business. And that's the private sector. Anything defense-related is at least 100x worse in terms of pointless busy-work. I don't quite understand how these sorts of neo-classical micro-econ axioms have such huge mindshare. Business managers are not omnipotent, and many aren't even competent.