Great article.

An added item to the pile of evidence in favor of structuralists is the habit of tech companies buying other tech companies to close them down and bring their workers on board.

Anyone who works in tech has seen this happen, and very possibly has worked for one of those companies that got bought out.

Sometimes, a company will get entirely shut down, and the BigCo will only hire its founders at insanely high salaries, while the people who built the guts of the company are tossed aside.

Luckily, this didn't happen to me when I was active in the software biz, but it sure happened all around me.

Often, they bought these companies for the sole reason that these companies were a threat to the bigger company's market share.