The real exploitation for 99% of the population isn't someone currency-manipulating your fortunes, it's being a de facto wage slave because we live in a system that decides at birth that you're a slave and 1% of people aren't. Crypto doesn't help you with that, ironically it makes it worse because it helps the kleptocracy move their money. That's who has a use for anonymous money, and they're normally robbing the locals. See: the Panama Papers, Russia

Well that’s a clause doing a lot of work. I guess email could have been the permanent contact repository a la Facebook if it had been easier for people to own their own addresses

If you do waterfall, your code is technically “simple”, because it has a nice architecture, but it’s “misaligned”- it won’t fit the problem well because it hasn’t been tested. This seems like the ur technical debt.

If you code to solve every problem as fast as possible and patch/rip it up to stay close to the domain- now your code is complex/ugly because design philosophy has been neglected, but it’s well aligned to the problem, call that modern tech debt.

So you have two axes, ugliness/beauty and misalignment/“fit”. Modern practice says to focus on iterating fit quickly then more occasionally solve beauty, in big steps. So aesthetic debt vs alignment debt.

Posters in the airport Museums Tour Guides Random conversations

So some touristic and some just random like airport and people

We also I don't think have the American civil war history and Jim Crow stuff, so it's not as much of a political football and the history of oppression diminishes MUCH earlier.

It's weirdly common and makes no sense to me this line of argument, I've seen independent newspapers attacked for paying less than (evil) big media companies. The devil pays well! That's the deal! Good guys can't/don't because they're trying to venture outside the huge raw capitalistic currents, and the employee-consumer effect. Ironically companies trying to do good which do pay well then get attacked for their profligacy with limited resources.

Underneath all this (especially on a still semi-elite tech site) I think a (societal) system with big problems pushing people into complicity creates a compulsion to attack anyone seemingly slightly nobler in their mission, in an to quash pervasive cognitive dissonance.

George Bernard Shore: Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.