People are used to paying for food. They delight in paying more for highly rated Michelin starred food, even. Software is the opposite. People really really hat

People are used to paying for food. They delight in paying more for highly rated Michelin starred food, even. Software is the opposite. People really really hate paying for software. It should all be free! The fact that making an additional copy of a piece of software is basically free vs creating an additional plate for dinner is very much not, has a lot to do with that. For sure. But it also means that I don't see a future where the "capitalist political economy" truely "values" aka pays seriously good money for a bespoke, handcrafted, no AI slop here, version of Photoshop to be run only once, and then you poop it out later.