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Re:$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes by falsedan on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:04PM (#20215340)
Software development isn't an industry like oil refining. Imagine if all the architects or civil engineers were located in a small handful of cities!
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Re:$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes by davidw on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:07PM (#20215386)
Architects and civil engineers mostly work where their services are needed, which makes sense. The economics of their industries are different.
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Re:$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes by falsedan on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:52PM (#20219240)
I don’t know what the point of this fact is. Architects and engineers mostly work from offices, which are usually located so that there is a good pool of potential employees around.
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Re:$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:37PM (#20215821)
Oil workers go to where the oil is. Which is both concentrated and distributed.

Software is dematerialised, which means, perversely, it tends to concentrate to a far greater extent. Much as local and regional entertainment, constrained by material proximiy to audience, gave way to Hollywood.

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