Good. But at the same time it should be possible to buy through private channels. So we can circumvent and get rid of the terribly inefficient bureaucrats.
You see totally different demographics between software design/development and the politics of software.
In this letter I see names that have never done anything significant, yet they feel entitled to correct one of the forefathers of software development.
We can compare the audience of an flamewar post about racism in US, vs the readership of a paper on fixed point theorems, and it makes sense that organizations that don't care about science like US universities choose to favor the former.
From a business perspective it must be more lucrative to select candidates by their cultural projection and the money connections than on the basis of academic potential.
I suppose that is true for MIT, for mainstream media, and for US corporations.
Well you paint a very gloomy dystopian picture, with scarcity and fighting for every square inch.
This issue is present in any political system, even full egalitarianism, increase population by an arbitrary amount to reduce land per citizen to an epsilon.
Provided you are a good neighbour, it will always be possible to find space to rent at the marginal cost, without a rent-seeking political class.
Okay, you claim 50% taxation is beneficial for all. It's highly debatable.
But the point it's that taxes should be phrased and understood for what they are, a whitewashed extortion. It has no proportion at all with costs of running a rule of law society. Be grateful that we take just 50% from you because we could take everything!
Sounds awesome. Citizens don't owe anything to the government, we shouldn't be born with a liability towards the government, we should be born free and be in total control of our finances, and be free to choose the hosting city that offers us the most.