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>> Why are writers valued as they are?

It is also a supply problem. A lot of good things that were written in the past are still valuable today. New writers need to compete for people's reading time with more and more great writers from the past.

Software tends to age much faster, and needs constant improvements, so demand for programmers does not decrease over time.




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