A corporation having contribution rights multiplies the otherwise imposed contribution limits on the underlying humans.

A corporation allows tax planning opportunities not afforded to the bottom 90-ish percent of the country (such as shifting income to alternate years to avoid progressive taxation, and utilizing expenses to lower that income in ways a W2 cannot)

Corporations are granted benefits that people do not get, and CU disturbs the balance of power.

Pull requests, CI platform, authentication that is not PAM etc.

2. I think it will happen much sooner than 2245 given how easily capital and the rich are able to move around the globe in 2026 (compared to 1945)

These executives think shifting peas around the plate is paramount to eating them. That's what toddlers do when they want to try and make mommy think they've done a good thing.

No one wants to just get down to the business of choking down these damn peas.

1. Merchant sells for price X

2. Credit card is invented

3. Merchant has to sell for price > X (say, 1.02 X) to cover some buyers using CC

4. Credit card offers 2-3% rewards on some goods

5. Merchant has to sell for prices even > X (say 1.04 X) to cover nearly all customers using cards. Customers who do not use the cards pay 1.04X and do not get rewards to compensate.

6. Merchant loses because they're beholden to processors, Customers lose because they're getting 2-3% of semi-currency for the cost of ~4% cash currency.

7. Processors get their profit

[1] - Employees deserve good wages for good work, tipping is just a bad algorithm to accomplish that

That's assuming two things -- user desires and valuation models are identical (they're not, even within a single product view)

and that the state of products is static -- Once a product is best there cannot be a new best in the future. You have to have buyers try new products, some of them disappointed, to plot the shape of what is best or worst. Charging companies a fee means they have to be really sure/serious that what they have to offer is market satisfying (else they're wasting their money).

What we really need is for consumers to stop being so short term thinking and buying the cheapest item (on BNPL no less) and for Amazon to be held accountable for how they penalize people who legitimately compete with them (imo an anti-trust issue).

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxl_lO15Ocg

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5otF7Bj5LxI

IMO The author fails to list the hypothetical person with 13 PRs to review is also failing.

> * The engineer who refuses to change with the times

IMO many of the old ways of software engineering were local maxima. We're still seeking how to hit a new maxima and the journey may take us through zones lower than the previous local maxima.

(This is me say good job, and congrats on your new found health :) )