Linked by David Adams on Mon 16th Aug 2004 17:44 UTC
I read something in one of the comments for an OSNews posting a couple weeks ago that sent me thinking. It wasn't an original or profound thought. In fact, it's a rather commonly-held opinion that happens to be quite misguided. It's an opinion summed up by the "open source = communist" meme that gets thrown around in thousands of flamewars all over the internet. In this essay, I will explore why this idea is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.
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--- "If you take money out of the software industry, salaries decrease, number of jobs decrease, and most importantly the incentive to actually join the industry starts to fade away. This is already happening, with people choosing to study subjects with better future prospects, software engineers shifting career, etc."
Wait... why is this necessarily a bad thing? What if all those workers and saleries going to some other new area results in some great economic boom?
Just like the industrial revolution. Had to suffer the pain to get the gain, but it was worth it in the end.