Software should be physical. I should be able to tap your phone like a payment and give you a financial model code file, social algorithm, or anything else.
Every technical person has the opportunity to build their way out of the doom loop that is corporate centralization of talent, intellectual and human capital.
They (big tech) don’t want to see you build side projects with other people outside your organization.
That is the equivalent to slaves working with a neighboring plantation’s slaves to work on an independently owned and operated cotton field.
This bondage exists at the highest level.