I feel that part of the problem is the ever-expanding protections provided to large incumbents via IP law and other overly-restrictive legal protections.  It flies in the face of being able to compete, or create new upstart competitors.<p>I enjoy being skilled as a software developer, but it&#x27;s still not relatively as good as it was in the mid-late 70&#x27;s accounting for inflation.  The problem is we have a lot of pro-business combined with protectionism that inhibits the pro-competition that&#x27;s meant to offset monopolistic tracks.