Also, much like that law of bureaucracy stating how work expands to fill the time available, every employer I’ve worked for has been able to envision and request vastly more software functionality than any dev team has been able to produce, which might not extrapolate forever, but has sustained the field so far.
On the other hand, people are much more finite in the amount of food that they require
On the other hand, people are much more finite in the amount of food that they require