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This, and more. Like it or not,the incredible success of software made it an industrial affair, the way clothing industry went 200 years ago - from highly skill
by ddalex 3y ago
This, and more. Like it or not,the incredible success of software made it an industrial affair, the way clothing industry went 200 years ago - from highly skilled artisans creating unique beautiful designs tailor specifically to their customer to cheap patterns industrially printed. Its just that the printers are still human.
- musicale 3y agoSo sweatshops basically? Not sure it's a great analogy though since software is still basically the design part - the duplication part is trivial.
- ddalex 3y agoYeah, very comfortable sweat shops for highly paid manual laborers. Why do you think open seating plan exists?!? Open plan is the default layout of a standard sweatshop. The key observation is that they successfully made the "design" of software they "mass duplication" part. The cost of designing and creating crappy custom software has never been so low and it continues to fall.
- theshrike79 3y agoYou do know that there are steps between bespoke tailor and exploitative sweat shop, right? Multiple steps actually. (And in some cases the alternative to the "sweat shop" is the same amount of hours outside in the fields with fluctuating income based on what happens with the crop that year)