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The land makes the food, the people just tend the land. If the people move out new people move in to fill that vacuum. That's exactly what happens now with mi

• dmitrygr 4y ago
  Do you also think that factories make widgets, and the people working there just press buttons? Text editors make software, and programmers just mash on keyboards? There’s a lot more to farming than tending to the land. Crops don’t magically grow. Your simplistic view of it is both insulting to those who farm and dangerous.
  • nostrademons 4y ago
    Once labor gets commoditized, yes. The factories do make the the widgets, with the people working there pushing buttons. That's why there's all this hand-wringing about immigration, cheap foreign competition, unions dissolving, worker bargaining power, and capitalist abuses. If the workers made the products they'd just find new factories and this wouldn't be an issue. Programmers for now do make the software, in that there's a dramatic difference in the ability of a good programmer vs. a mediocre programmer to actually complete a project, and they're compensated accordingly. That'll likely change in a decade or so, though. Then the software will be largely already written, and it'll be maintained by management structures with commodity programmers slotting into roles in the org chart. It's already happening for many roles. It's a perspective shift from "here's a laborer making a product" to "here's a role for how the product is made, and any number of different laborers could slot into it", and it happens when there are enough people with the skills to make the product that any one of them can slot into it.