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		MattGaiser on May 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than... A lot of it really comes down to explaining that labor cost is equally a cash cost compared to spending on software.

AstralStorm on May 13, 2020 [–]

For some bigger companies it's not, software being capital expenses and labor being operational expenses. They're taxed and budgeted separately.

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