>The UK system takes the national insurance contributions of workers but doesn’t invest them in anything on behalf of the individual. So despite decades of payments you technically have nothing at the end and survive on the goodwill of the government and current taxpayers. That works right now because of the population pyramid.
That's how Social Security works in the United States as well.
As someone coming back to C++ after more than a decade away, do you have any recommended resources on C++20 or open source projects you've seen that utilize the language this way?
In what other country does a jail sentence mean you get sent to another country to serve the sentence? (Except maybe the US now with detained immigrants)
If your firm's 401k plan allows it, you can contribute up to 32k post tax (it's not deductible) and then immediately roll over to a Roth 401k (google for "mega-backdoor Roth"). People don't realize that the IRA and 401k sections of the tax code are completely different, and they both have Roth sections, and the limits in one don't apply to the other.
Possibly related to that is the idea of 'late-binding' of physical items (ie 3D printing). It's interesting to think about the combination of computer driven synthesis and manufacturing of physical/computational products (ie smart materials).
Did you ever experiment with 'late-binding' hardware? IE something akin to FPGAs today? Could that be considered the progression of the Alto's microcode design?