Comment by dingnuts
20 hours ago
lumberjacks didn't go away when chainsaws were invented; demand for wood rose to meet the falling cost of wood and lumberjacks kept cutting down trees. don't see why it won't be any different for programmers.
20 hours ago
lumberjacks didn't go away when chainsaws were invented; demand for wood rose to meet the falling cost of wood and lumberjacks kept cutting down trees. don't see why it won't be any different for programmers.
But the chainsaws were never developed to the point that the head of wood supplies could ask them to go and chop some trees down by themselves.
In the US, there were entire cities with essentially just lumberjacks. In other words, there used to be a LOT more lumberjacks than there are today, and they were a lot better paid.
Now there are a LOT of software engineers.
What's the equivalent of deforestation in that analogy?