Re: Pygmies inheriting from giants
I suspect it has alot of the same reasons that the multiplier between average earnings and house prices are much bigger now than they were 50 years ago, with a good sprinkle of why there is such a "skills shortage" in the UK.
It's not that an old system cannot be built or maintained it's that building them and maintaining them requires knowledge of both the old way and new ways of doing things. That knowledge requires specialism. We all know that the more specialist someone's skills the more they can charge for them. Perhaps if UK businesses (and government) invested in digital skills, didn't have managers who had more in common with Luddites and didn't have a race to the bottom those "below" them on the corporate ladder to fuel their own pay checks then there would be a hope.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
