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There could be another model in the future, one where many more independent people might support self maintained software by non saas companies

e.g. If the supply of labor learning to build software increases and it becomes very close to what are now vocation training, then you can just hire a guy — like you would a consultant — who can quickly get spun up and make fixes. I would think one of the few things preventing this kind of socio economic set up are saas jobs that are siloed off by interview "walls" to most people from entering. Make it like a vocation, like plumbing or electrician, with lots of non saas companies supporting the market and suddenly it will be the death of saas.

The incentives for this future are closer than they were in 2022-23.