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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8240919, member: 27832&quot;]It seems to me you&#039;d never get past <i>defining</i> productivity.</p><p><br /></p><p>I work as a software developer. One could argue that I&#039;ve &quot;produced&quot; <i>nothing</i> throughout my career -- I&#039;ve just rearranged symbols in ways that cause other symbols to be rearranged. I haven&#039;t dug anything out of the ground, I haven&#039;t raised and harvested foods, I haven&#039;t even run machines in a factory. And yet, this career pays better than most of those others.</p><p><br /></p><p>I <i>produce</i> abstractions that other people want, dare I say <i>need</i>. That work has value. It&#039;s not particularly constrained in supply, though -- there are developers who &quot;produce&quot; tens or hundreds of times more than I do, and nearly anybody <i>could</i> learn to do basic software development. How does that map to a limited supply of metal being dragged out of the ground?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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