The number of people that I see taking their bags into the supermarket would be <10%. Many people, like me, just pay the 15c/bag tax each time for (heavier plastic) bags that just end up in landfill anyway.
As I mentioned, doing something worthwhile not just empty consumption. Ensuring financial security for yourself and/or family is a virtuous thing in my book, cf. being underpaid at a non-profit for the social impact.
Is there something inherently wrong with finding meaning (or perhaps motivation) from compensation? Particularly if you're using money for worthwhile reasons? You might be surprised at how motivating a big bag of stock options in a unicorn startup can be (ok, maybe not so much in recent times :-)).
> Much better that they weather through mental issues and come out a normal adult.
I once held this view, which changed when I watched my 8yo daughter, who was showing some _very_ troubling anxiety-related behaviors, be almost immediately helped when she was diagnosed with ADHD+Aspergers and given ADHD meds. We'd previously tried child therapists and pretty much everything else under the sun.
Do I wish that she didn't need medication? Of course. But for her the benefit has far outweighed the downsides, at least so far.
> CouchDB tried the whole DB-per-user thing and it didn't end super well.
Can anyone give further context here? Haven't looked at CouchDB for several years, remember it as being good for certain use cases (intermittently offline devices etc).
Recently started doing this and it feels like it's freed up around 25% of my brain cycles to concentrate and think about what's actually happening in the meeting.