[yawgmoth]

> Look, the only purpose of software is automation and the only purpose of automation is labor elimination

I use software to design algorithms to make capital decisions, where distribution centers and warehouses are built. I am not automating a human job.

[scandox]

I'm confused. If the software didn't exist then many humans would be needed to figure out on paper (or excel) how to make these decisions, wouldn't they?

[yawgmoth]

That's true. But, to the point of eliminating labor -- there's still a human in the loop here.

In fact I would argue that while people were still making capital decisions, the idea of optimizing them is only practical WITH some kind of software / calculator / computer. The tooling I write has added jobs, not eliminated them.