> but one thing about farming that is very different than software development is that only one person needs to do the thinking and can then delegate to less in

> but one thing about farming that is very different than software development is that only one person needs to do the thinking and can then delegate to less inclined individuals True, although, technically speaking, that work still exists. The programmer just delegates it to the computer instead of having people do it. There is no reason why you couldn't have an assembly line of humans hand-compiling your programs, if you really wanted to. Once you give them the basic rules, they can set forth and complete any task that you ask of them. It is just repetition at that point. Farming is quickly going in the same direction. The delegatable jobs are, more and more, being done by machines.