I'm sorry a typical software developer doesn't do anything innovative. At the current stage, the majority of the industry does works like porting things from la

I'm sorry a typical software developer doesn't do anything innovative. At the current stage, the majority of the industry does works like porting things from lang X to lang Y or mapping between convoluted systems that they themselves created (for "DX"), making skins around databases, again and again. Another hughe chunk of developers works in the attention economy: ads, game, streaming, whatever, the things that I doubt have a net positive contribution to society. They give people nonsense to do and watch and take away their time, sounds like mutiplier of negative productivity if anything. There are indeed developers working on useful things to society, but they usually work on top of amazing intercom and hardware infrastructures that drive more innovation and deserve more credit than their crappy software. Speaking as a web developer.