So, the economic value measured for a piece of code drops if fewer people buy the product that it's in or its price has to be cut, entirely separate from how fa

So, the economic value measured for a piece of code drops if fewer people buy the product that it's in or its price has to be cut, entirely separate from how fast anyone is coding. Similar logic applies to a lot of sectors, not just software. Macroeconomic changes are going to work their way back to these stats eventually, independent of any changes in how workers spend their day or the concrete stuff they produce. (Kind of like stormbrew and nostrademons said!)