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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 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. | 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 [[Java coder from Bucharest you found on UpWork|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. |