In what world is the cost of software production zero? You are aware software developers are paid, you know, money for services, right? To be honest, your arg

In what world is the cost of software production zero? You are aware software developers are paid, you know, money for services, right? To be honest, your argument, here, is exactly the trouble economists have trying to understand economic rent. Rent is to economists what pornography is to a supreme court justice: they know it when they see it. There simply is no concrete theory to define rent, and so it's extremely difficult to provide any kind of proof of increased rent seeking in modern economies without relying on personal judgment, and therefore bringing to bear personal bias. Which is, of course, why you think software is rent while someone else might not: it's in the eye of the beholder.