Welcome, or not, to the wonderful world of being shadow-banned. I get to keep my topcolor, which is the only demonstrable advantage of "high karma" so I keep this account.
It's really hard to actually care about what people here think about my work/life, so everything works out well.
I literally cannot imagine a more tedious set of jobs than the ones presented here thus far. Nothing for people with technical interest; nothing for people with social justice interest.
Thus continuing pg's commitment to be the least important rich person ever.
I am a jerk-off. I communicate well, but I do not pretend it is one of my core competencies. And, yet, I have made millions of dollars being little more than a cog in the machine.
I do not pretend that I have great insight beyond "be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing." And I have managed to get hell-banned for differentiating this from the "reach for the stars and hit your dreams" snake oil of, since it no longer matters, Paul Graham.
I find this to be a somewhat odd position. I think it's much more morally defensible to argue for raising corporate taxes and eliminating capital gains taxes. This acknowledges that corporations owe their existence to the state, while natural persons do not.
Is your position based on the premise that personal income taxes are good and necessary? Or, perhaps, an acknowledgement that dismantling that system is probably unattainable?
While a lot of people seem to attribute this quote to Robert Frost, possibly because of his poem "Mending Wall", this is actually from "The Thing" by G. K. Chesterton.
It'd be cool if it worked the way the author describes, but for most situations I just don't see it happening.
That is because you have too narrowly described "most situations."
"Most situations" is, sincerely, "we want to do This Thing. We think there is money in This Thing." If you are not interested in doing This Thing you will NOT be a good fit.
It's comforting to believe that as coders we can do anything. This largely true. On the other hand, if we don't believe in it, we pretty much don't actually do it. That's the crappy side (for the business-types) of the self-actualization of developers.
It's really hard to actually care about what people here think about my work/life, so everything works out well.