Infrastructure for Sofware Production
How do you manage means of communication as infrastructure for production of software?
Is this an appropriate question to ask about Means of Production in Software Age?
In the context of Industrial Age Means of Production (MoP. Der Produktionsmittel) was described as:
“combination of the means of labor and the subject of labor used by workers to make products. Means of labor include machines, tools, plant and equipment, infrastructure, and so on: “all those things with the aid of which man [sic]
acts upon the subject of labor, and transforms it.”
The subject of labor includes raw materials and materials directly taken from nature. Means of production by themselves produce nothing — labor is needed for production to take place.”
In the context of Software Age; what is the subject of labor? what are the means of labor? what is the worker? what is transformed? what is raw material?
Means of labor - “all those things with the aid of which man acts upon the subject of labor and transforms it” - Transforms it into what? Usable Code, Working Software that produces values. OK, so what is subject of labor acted upon? Can lines of code be a raw material? But they were invented. Lines of Code don’t exist in the wild that you can fish for, hunt, dig for…
What is a capital asset identified as means of production?
more questions…
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