Too bad a functional fourth estate is a dependency for, you know, western democratic capitalism.
Less puckishly: What I feel upon reading this is sort of like that feeling when you find out some bad piece of news about climate change. It's bad enough on its own, but what it implies about the overall health of the national and international socioeconomic context, which, as SWE I (like you) depend on for my survival, is enough to keep one up at night.
Who, among folks smart enough to earn six figures writing code, will deign to don gumboots? And if they don't, who will?
And what happens to us when that person proves incompetent, irregular, desperate, uninformed, or lackadaisical -- all the things that (under capitalism) a healthy salary is supposed to ward against?
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Too bad a functional fourth estate is a dependency for, you know, western democratic capitalism.
Less puckishly: What I feel upon reading this is sort of like that feeling when you find out some bad piece of news about climate change. It's bad enough on its own, but what it implies about the overall health of the national and international socioeconomic context, which, as SWE I (like you) depend on for my survival, is enough to keep one up at night.
Who, among folks smart enough to earn six figures writing code, will deign to don gumboots? And if they don't, who will?
And what happens to us when that person proves incompetent, irregular, desperate, uninformed, or lackadaisical -- all the things that (under capitalism) a healthy salary is supposed to ward against?