Yep, no idea which is which. Maybe everyone’s software scammers at this point, couldn’t tell you. Seemed a little me-centric to assume that was the case, but could be. 🤷

Most produced products seem like production labor is very low cost (they outsource to somewhere to have “very grateful” five year olds do it) and the majority of the “in-house” labor is things like sales and marketing (which aren’t even usually in-house which is why I put it in scare-quotes). But all of this is admittedly anecdata.

It’s their biggest expense

I kinda doubt this is true for most businesses to be honest. It’s just the expense that most pisses them off.

It’s kinda like if you ever get into an argument with someone about US government spending. Many people believe military personnel is the biggest ticket item for the pentagon when it is not even close.

Many companies spend more on marketing (in house or more often outsourced) than they do on labor. But for some reason, labor is always what pisses them off.

evidenced plainly by the fact that they’d invest 1.5+ trillion in the magical “I don’t need workers anymore” word guessing machine and keep doubling and tripling down upon it at the potential peril of the global economy

it would be cuck coding if you didn’t constantly have to answer questions and steer the pile of shit…

it’s like a form of cuck coding where the bull keeps asking which position to do her in and if you have any specifications for the speed and if the girth is well sized