I work with a lot of young developers and startups. Idiocracy is here already. Big time. I’m usually the guy who has to dig them out of the shit.
You get to do that? You need to tell me how you got there. Me, I get told that the shit is just warm and fiiine, come on in and stop complaining.
I know I overshare and am overly direct and lack the charisma needed to convince nontechnical people, though. You certainly have much better people skills than I do.
On top of that a lot of software companies are MBA driven and the engineering side is seen as a cost centre rather than the core of the business.
Here in Finland, about one third of large IT projects actually complete; the rest just fail, producing nothing usable. This is seen as perfectly normal and understandable; no CYA needed.
Then I realised that wasn’t their goal. So now I concentrate on extracting as much money from them as possible because the less they have the less they can hurt people.
I realized that when I was 25, having run a small IT company with my eldest brother for a couple of years. I was too naive, and thought if I was even more better and effective and honest, my clients would appreciate it, and things might change. I was utterly wrong, of course, and broke myself mentally from doing so. The costliest mistake I ever made for sure.
As for poverty, I think they redefined the line. I take my kids to school with people on food bank handouts.
Could be.. but people no longer starve because of natural resource shortages; they only starve if they live in a country or region controlled by dictators (warlords, socialists, or communists). Children do now have the opportunities people did not have in the past,
globally.
Now I have no problem with immigration for sure but the reason it works is that the immigrants and outsourcers get paid less. They shouldn’t.
Do not get me started on ethnic replacement projects, that rant is not nice. It is definitely going on here, at least. I personally no longer have access to professionals to help me untwist my mind so I can do real work again, because those services seem to be focused to "paperless" now. Because of my past, I cannot bring myself to borrow enough money to do it on my own; that kind of risk would be too much for me to mentally handle: self-defeating from the get go. Anyway, I don't want a monoculture, and I don't want to see any single culture vanish, including my own. I do want to change many facets of many cultures, though, because I can see the damage they cause to everyone. Because I do not give a shit about protecting groups and insist on dealing with individuals on an individual basis, judging them solely based on their behaviour, I constantly risk being labeled a racist, and being excluded from participation and employment.
A couple of decades ago, I remember talking to a professor about patents in a poster session. (I had almost applied for a basically software one the year before, related to online editing of web pages, and the underlying mechanisms for doing so [that are not used even today, funnily enough].) I had observed to the professor that majority of patents are used to block competing products from becoming available, rather than protecting available products from being copied. (Not just in physics, but also in engineering. Crankshaft patent delayed automobiles for twenty years, for example. Without certain basically unused additive manufacturing patents, we could have had 3D printers in late eighties.) Because of that, I dislike the current patent system, and would like to see it replaced with something that protects products incorporating the patents instead: a scheme of "use it or lose it", if you will. A student indignantly called me a communist, and said they had "the right to profit from their ideas". I think I sprained my brain somehow observing the situation, being a CEO of my own small company, being labeled a communist, by an ostensibly sharp and intelligent student, wearing a Che Guevara shirt (figuratively speaking; no tuition fees in Universities in Finland), claiming that the society owes them money and resources, because she has "ideas".
A few years ago, I was still hoping I could get employed in my University, developing a new molecular dynamics simulator (that has a core design that can actually utilize the hardware we have now, with a number of different potential models and simulation regimes, both parallelized and distributed, separating the bits scientists want to fiddle with (the potential models) into units that let them do so without compromising the efficiency of the simulation, easily). Materials science needs good, reliable, valid simulators. Unfortunately, even the HPC stuff seems to be under high pressure to be outsourced to the cloud. It seems it is cheaper to pay millions for service providers than pay a cheap undergrad/grad a salary to fix and develop the tools. So now, I really don't have a plan anymore.
I am not kidding when I say I would gladly take a one-way trip to Mars, if I got some equipment to do real exploration and analysis there for a year or two before perishing.
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