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Web dev doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Web dev for e-commmerce displaced brick and mortar retail. Web dev for streaming displaced video rentals and audio sales.

• devnullbrain 1y ago
  Web devs are a tiny proportion of the employees needed for e-commerce.
  • sokoloff 1y ago
    Without them (and mobile devs, though there’s increasing cross-over), e-commerce doesn’t get done. Ergo, web devs are directly contributing to the outcomes that e-commerce enables.
    • devnullbrain 1y ago
      Ok, but so is everyone involved with building the fulfillment centre, the sorting machines, the roads for delivery, the trucks, the railways... If it sounds like I'm including a lot of jobs, it's because every non-service job in the history of the post-industrial revolution economy has revolved around making things more efficient. Software development is not some uniquely evil domain.
      • sokoloff 1y ago
        I agree. I was just answering the upthread question, which seemed to imply that web devs have no part in it.