alt Hacker NewsThat seems like a good thing. Mostly software doesn't make people's lives better, instead it does the exact opposite. A society that recognizes that, and rejects the people who build it, is ahead of the curve.
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Same as with nuclear...
Yeah but then you get demolished by the economies who made bank with software and loose a lot of your skilled youth to them via brain drain and are left with an ageing population and high welfare costs with nobody left to pay for it because they all left to work in SW in other countries.
You can't expect the entire population to share your luxury belief. People at the end of the day want a better living.
In a globally competitive environment, there's no virtue, no reward at the end, for dying on a hill as a broke luddite.
Well no, the result is they still make a lot of software it’s just really bad