> Creating a culture of home-cooked software must happen in the margins, without capital, because capital by nature goes to restaurants.
I honestly think this is the root of the problem, and that there is "too much software" is merely a symptom caused by this.
As someone who didn't eat out often before quarantines, and is only a fair-to-middling cook, I can say that restaurants have crippled us in many respects. The overall cost is more than cooking at home, it's less healthy for you to eat at restaurants, fast food in particular has a bigger environmental impact, and to top it all off, these corporations are warping the political landscape with lobbying, never mind what other concerns there might be (much like the oil lobbies).
I find it funny that you claim that "we didn't have millennia of home-cooked tradition built up before the restaurants arrived" as I'm pretty sure the exact opposite is true. So it would appear that as with all victors, restaurants are re-writing history, too.
Take all of these observations and apply them to software, and it fits, perfectly. What's the commonality? It has to do with certain unchecked forms of certain economic engines . . .
> Just to be clear, I was alluding to software here, not real food and real restaurants.
Fair. I guess I'm being dense today. It's a very good point that despite the feeling of the software industry being old, it's still younger by far than any other human endeavor (that I'm aware of). It's a field that is chaotic and still hasn't had time to settle down, really.
The lower the cost the higher it is in the grand scheme of things. I’d like people to understand food is expensive and should treat it as such: reduce food waste and stop taking shortcuts via long routes, aka importing non seasonal food from the other side of the planet. I support locally grown food and local farms as much as I can!
I honestly think this is the root of the problem, and that there is "too much software" is merely a symptom caused by this.
As someone who didn't eat out often before quarantines, and is only a fair-to-middling cook, I can say that restaurants have crippled us in many respects. The overall cost is more than cooking at home, it's less healthy for you to eat at restaurants, fast food in particular has a bigger environmental impact, and to top it all off, these corporations are warping the political landscape with lobbying, never mind what other concerns there might be (much like the oil lobbies).
I find it funny that you claim that "we didn't have millennia of home-cooked tradition built up before the restaurants arrived" as I'm pretty sure the exact opposite is true. So it would appear that as with all victors, restaurants are re-writing history, too.
Take all of these observations and apply them to software, and it fits, perfectly. What's the commonality? It has to do with certain unchecked forms of certain economic engines . . .