Or maybe this will always be a niche thing, with us buying and selling from each other but never able to interact outside a relatively small loop. At that stage we'd get squeezed into a corner and it will be a brain drain as well as a wealth transfer. Some soi-dissant devs don't help matters much the way they act as if they are a superior race, with their in jokes etc but when you ask them to explain something they either hit you with jargon or take the piss. The way doctors once were I suppose.