I think all programmers are the "oil". Some are higher quality that others, just as is the case with oil. Maybe tech companies are like refineries?
This analogy is getting strange, but I like it.
This analogy is getting strange, but I like it.
Just like pollution from the fossil-fuel industry, you can pick high-intensity problems that are restricted to the areas nearest the source, or low-intensity problems spread over the whole country/world. For example, the housing pressure in SF/SV is very high intensity but affects only a small part of the world; non-STEM high school and university departments losing prestige and/or funding is less intense in any one place but more widely distributed.