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At work, we provide video courses of therapists to other mental health professionals. I help run a youth group, which uses lots of software to manage, communic

• globular-toast 2y ago
  If it were intrinsically valuable then it would still be valuable if you took away the businesses. Would your healthcare software be valuable if there was nobody to produce the video course? Would your youth group be valuable if nobody attended it? What are you empowering the youth to do? Also write software to empower the next generation? It has to end somewhere. You can't eat software. You can't eat gold either, but if society collapsed I bet you'd still be able to trade a gold ingot for a carrot, because it maintains a modicum of value. I doubt you'd have many takers for a JPEG codec you just wrote, though, and that's far more generally useful software than business software which is what most software is.
  • Twixes 2y ago
    So the whole idea of "you can't eat technology" relies on the apocalypse happening imminently? Modern institutions of society are WHY our lives are full of what would be magic 200 years ago, like being able to grab a carrot from the supermarket shelf any time. With both hardware and software we've made agriculture the most efficient its ever been, and it's now so efficient it literally frees up to optimize the edges of other problems