[bentt]

Some farmers probably lamented the rise of machines because they feared their strength would no longer be needed in the fields. These farmers were no doubt more concerned with their own usefulness as laborers than in the goals of the farm: to produce food.

If you program as labor, consider what you might build with no boss. You’re better equipped to start your own farm than you think.

[jamwil]

Many of them might have been troubled by the fact that they couldn’t afford a tractor. Many small farms became a few big ones, and so it will go in software.

[bentt]

Didn’t that already happen in software? Seems like network effects got ahead of this.