> In my team, my rule is: if it’s better than what’s on master, you approve and merge.
This causes unnecessary code changes later on, code changes mean new code, new code has bugs. The team should try to get it close to perfect on the first try instead. They won't, but that should be everyone's target. If that sounds impossible, then the PR was to big.
ChatGPT thinks, that in the US social security makes up about 30-40% of the retirement income of a typical American, while the German system makes up about 80-85% of a retired German. Home ownership rate in Germany is also way lower.
Germany is an outlier in that there is no capital backing for that generation whatsover. The problem has been known for 30 years, they just chose to ignore it.
Here in Germany they also ignored the demographics, so our social insurance systems (retirement but also health) are heading towards a catastrophe, because there is no capital backing them. They are fundamentally relying on the next generation being bigger or at least equal. This has turned them essentially into Ponzi schemes. The taxpayer has to jump in, making the state less and less able to do anything at all. Of course they now collectively avoid responsibility and slowly milk the young - their own children - dry.
If you want to tackle it from a more practical point of view, I can also recommend "Site Reliability Engineering (How Google runs production systems)", which is not only about the method itself, but naturally goes over distributed systems and explains some fundamentals.
People unfortunately do not really care about the absolute amount of pie they get. They only care about getting the same amount of pie the others on the table have. They are angry if someone gets more than they get. Sometimes they do not see that this person actually has baked the pie. Others might not have had a chance to have lunch before. Unless people are starving, the absolute amount of pie does not really matter to them.
Both Germany and the US do not like to think about US soldiers committing war crimes or even behaving badly in WWII.
The US thinks so, because its war was all about moral high ground, ignoring its very own blatant racism at home.
Germany likes to think so, because the liberation by the US actually ended in being liberated. Millions of civilians had to flee and/or were being raped by the Red army. Prisoners of war ended in Siberian gulags for decades, while the GDR was constructed at home.
I think with time passing it becomes easier to paint a more complex and realistic picture acknowledging the situation these (often young) people were in, without justifying their actions. I would like to see glorification shifting more and more to memorization of a time and of circumstances that brought out the worst in people and must never happen again anywhere in the world.