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> why are they getting paid essentially to put into action stuff that other people wrote Isn't that true of almost every tool in a modern economy with division
by cubix 12y ago
> why are they getting paid essentially to put into action stuff that other people wrote
Isn't that true of almost every tool in a modern economy with division of labour, including something as simple as a pencil[1] that you use to jot down notes?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
- robert_tweed 12y agoI may not know how to make a pencil, but I know precisely how a pencil works. I can be reasonably confident that it is not going to start writing in ink one day, because an upstream maintainer thought it would be a cool feature.