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Software development isn't an industry like oil refining. Imagine if all the architects or civil engineers were located in a small handful of cities!

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Architects and civil engineers mostly work where their services are needed, which makes sense. The economics of their industries are different.

I don’t know what the point of this fact is. Architects and engineers mostly work from offices, which are usually located so that there is a good pool of potential employees around.

Oil workers go to where the oil is. Which is both concentrated and distributed.

Software is dematerialised, which means, perversely, it tends to concentrate to a far greater extent. Much as local and regional entertainment, constrained by material proximiy to audience, gave way to Hollywood.

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