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On Tuesday 12 October 2004 1:27 am, Adrian Midgley wrote: > On Monday 11 October 2004 12:16, Neil Williams wrote: > > Writing code does not cost any money. > > Aieie. > > I am not an economist (although from time to time I read it.) > It has been accepted by sufficient people of considerable smartness and > whose world-models seem to work that the concept of "opportunity cost" is > valid.
WRONG. You assume that all activity 24/7 is worthy of income. I write code in my spare time, in my dreams, in the car - i.e. in circumstances where I am ALREADY doing something else which no-one in their right mind would charge for.
Writing code does not cost any money BECAUSE IT IS NOT WORK.
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