I tend to think differently. Coding is also a source of value. Why? Because people do what they enjoy. People do what makes them feel important. And people have

I tend to think differently. Coding is also a source of value. Why? Because people do what they enjoy. People do what makes them feel important. And people have an identity of being, for example, an assembler programmer. This will go on as long as they can afford it. That is as long as there's a market for some arcane language or skill. If there's no market, maybe they'll pursue it as a hobby. I think HN is full of this. Just two posts from today: compiling the vanilla source code of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom rendered via console.log(). (Interestingly both related to John Carmack.) I guess the world could be a better place if we'd squeeze out value of every minute. But I don't see that fully also in business. Even Carmack says himself that he's not going to the final abstraction. So I tend to see this as a guideline one can strive for.