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{{a|devil| | {{a|devil|{{image|Legal pizza|jpg|“Your [[CDO squared]], sir. Would you like a monoline wrap with that?”}}}}Of a [[legal service]], to ''deliver'' it, to a [[buyer]], who will ''consume'' it, like a [[pizza]]. | ||
}}Of a [[legal service]], to ''deliver'' it, to a [[buyer]], who will ''consume'' it, like a [[pizza]]. | |||
A view of the world that sees a lawyer as a dolled-up courier gigging for Deliveroo, and the difficult part of the job being the logistics of getting the [[pizza]] — sorry, I mean “complex legal work product” — into the consumer’s gob. | A view of the world that sees a lawyer as a dolled-up courier gigging for Deliveroo, and the difficult part of the job being the logistics of getting the [[pizza]] — sorry, I mean “complex legal work product” — into the consumer’s gob. | ||
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But it ''is'' about the [[pizza]]. Even now. | But it ''is'' about the [[pizza]]. Even now. | ||
The marginal return on any activity is not a function of how ''clever'' it is, but how ''difficult''. It is ''not'' difficult to do clever things with a computer: all you need is a computer, and the [[ | The marginal return on any activity is not a function of how ''clever'' it is, but how ''difficult''. It is ''not'' difficult to do clever things with a computer: all you need is a computer, and the [[Bulgarian freelance coder|Java coder from Bucharest you found on ''UpWork'']]. But if ''you'' can do it, so can ''anyone else'' who gets hold of a computer and an account on ''UpWork''. Computers are cheap. Romanian Java coders are cheap. | ||
Seeing as that “anyone else” will be your competitor, once you have figured out how to make ''your'' [[pizza]] with a computer, and paid your Java guy, its marginal ''value'' will equal its marginal ''cost of production'' — that is to say, ''nil''. This will happen not just gradually, over a period, but ''at once''. Ask Kodak.<ref>Kodak ''invented'' the digital camera. It still killed them.</ref> Ask people who used to make postcards and aerogrammes. | Seeing as that “anyone else” will be your competitor, once you have figured out how to make ''your'' [[pizza]] with a computer, and paid your Java guy, its marginal ''value'' will equal its marginal ''cost of production'' — that is to say, ''nil''. This will happen not just gradually, over a period, but ''at once''. Ask Kodak.<ref>Kodak ''invented'' the digital camera. It still killed them.</ref> Ask people who used to make postcards and aerogrammes. | ||