You're not on a tangent at all, you're 100% correct.
It's shameful (in the most absolute sense of the term) that an entire class of people who contribute nothing to the world get to dictate—at the barrel of a gun or threat of imprisonment no less—that we owe them money that they then go and spend carelessly and without accountability (and this is independent of political beliefs—every single politician and bureaucrat is guilty). It's made even worse that they can't be bothered to make it easy to pay them (which is in their best interest). They exist solely to waste time and give otherwise unskilled people something to do.
I sincerely hope that the younger generations see all of this for what it is and aggressively work to remove it. "Oppressive" is exactly the right term. It hurts the prosperity of the majority in favor of a helpless minority (and no, I don't mean the people who actually need our help like the disabled—I explicitly mean government employees).
Love how the person who did a “AI-powered code snippets manager and generator and … Mod CSS framework” just casually dismisses millions of people around the globe who ensure safe drinking water, distribution of vaccines, maintenance of nuclear warheads, provision of public health, etc., et fucking cetera, as a class of people who “contribute nothing to the world.”
Very cool - good luck with Mod. Can’t wait until it changes my life as much as living in a functional, stable society (well, at least until a couple months ago, in my case, lol).
You're cherry picking what I've worked on. I've also built a full-stack JavaScript framework that's a far better solution than the current competition and can (if utilized) solve a lot of the issues with software we see today.
To your point, all of the problems you outline are either created/exacerbated by government or would be better handled by private industry.
That you reacted emotionally to my comment means I'm far closer to the truth than you might be willing to admit.
It's shameful (in the most absolute sense of the term) that an entire class of people who contribute nothing to the world get to dictate—at the barrel of a gun or threat of imprisonment no less—that we owe them money that they then go and spend carelessly and without accountability (and this is independent of political beliefs—every single politician and bureaucrat is guilty). It's made even worse that they can't be bothered to make it easy to pay them (which is in their best interest). They exist solely to waste time and give otherwise unskilled people something to do.
I sincerely hope that the younger generations see all of this for what it is and aggressively work to remove it. "Oppressive" is exactly the right term. It hurts the prosperity of the majority in favor of a helpless minority (and no, I don't mean the people who actually need our help like the disabled—I explicitly mean government employees).