On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 23:40:37 -0700, rbowman wrote:



Yeah, I'm a dinosaur and I never quite got the whole service economy
thing. Gates, or I should say Microsoft, does create software. Even that
is very intangible. I've been in the software game for about 40 years
and I'm not sure anything I've done was all that necessary or even had a
positive effect.

I spent 30 years writing code. I doubt there's a line of it in use today.
A bricklayer's work lasts for generations. But I didn't want to be a bricklayer.