Lots of the classical writing on property and capital are from a pre-software era, which doesn’t make it wrong, but I see many things that are so extremely exacerbated with software that have been peeking my interest lately.

For instance, I’m not aware of any other profession in history that can, as the software companies themselves call it, “turn pizza into code”. Such low costs to producing what is essentially brand new capital that requires marginal labour to operate are unprecedented AFAIK. If I were to speculate, that is exactly why software developers are so exalted in the capitalist media and market, even though a lot of their work is either useless or discarded (just look at google graveyard) despite their disproportional salaries. They literally turn food and electricity into intangible and scalable capital.

(I’m generally from the field, if it looks like I hold it against y’all lol)