Comment by ec109685
3 years ago
Software has a long life, like buildings and whatnot, so that is likely why it is singled out versus the office manager.
If you buy a building, you can’t depreciate the whole thing instantly, you do it over the life of the building.
What about an architect's salary? Does the firm who designs the building amortize the cost of that labor, while the purchaser of the building also amortizes the entire cost of the building? How about EEs who design the hardware? Are they included?
> If you buy a building, you can’t depreciate the whole thing instantly
The same should hold of course if you buy software.
But if you ask your employee to perform a task like writing a program you are not buying anything. You are paying the employee's salary whether the software they are writing ever gets out of the compiler or not.
So wouldn't there be a way around this by changing the titles of software developers to "software janitors" for instance ?