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Thus, the people in the programming field have evolved a way of wasting a lot of their time and thus making apparently a need for more programmers than we really need. Why is there a programmer shortage? Because with intellectual property programmers have arranged to waste half the work they do, so we seem to need twice as many programmers. And so, when people point to the system of intellectual property and say &ldquo;look at the large employment statistics, look at how big this industry is&rdquo; what that really proves is that people are wasting a lot of money and time. If they talk about looking for ways to improve programmer productivity, they're happy to do this if it involves superior tools, but to improve programmer productivity by getting rid of the explicit things that is done to reduce programmer productivity, that they're against. Because that would reduce the number of programmers employed. There's something a little bit schizophrenic there.