Meandering, pointless, and ultimately futile without a readily-accessible thesis? Absolutely.
But the fact is, nobody single-handedly builds much of anything of consequence anymore. To call out the architecture metaphor is absolutely necessary! But perhaps for different reasons.
I'd be much more willing to trust what a society builds if everyone involved had a voice. Do I get to own my work when I design for Blizzard? Do I get agency over what I've built? And where does this end?
Technicians and a minority of engineers alike raised concerns about O-Rings before a certain disaster... If only we gave them some level of oversight over their own work, the Challenger Disaster would never have happened.
To suggest that any O-Rings anywhere are the responsibility/property of those NASA engineers is equally inane as divorcing the creator from their work. And yet, under our current intellectual property laws, this is too often the reality.
The sole architect is a strawman of a metaphor outside of very specific contexts. And even within them - who trained this architect? What reference documents do they use? Who assigned the purpose for the building? While these inputs are not enough to carry ownership, they are enough to quit pretending some lone figure is a "creative genius" that cannot be outperformed by a team on larger-scale works.
"Cancel Culture" - while a social problem in terms of Gamergate-style harassment - has mostly just boiled down to "your boss" getting to moderate your online speech and side-gigs.
It might be your literal boss. It might be the credit card company. Either way, your framing of Sovereignty is greatly appreciated, even down to the individual level where it likely isnt intended.
I dont know about you, but I would love the opportunity to just have my bills paid, while I pursue some passion project. Write some code for broad utility and GPL it. Maybe paint. Maybe teach some neighbors' kids how to code. Maybe help the neighbors with a few things, so they can have time with their kids. Finally build that 3D printer filament recycler for those plastic cups. And print toys for the neighborhood kids by how much they can collect.
Share. Build. Dream. Learn. Live.
Its not that these things arent contributing to our society. Its that these things are not itemized by a monetary value as part of the GDP.
And I think that says something about the way we run our economy, more than it says about "laziness," or whatever hustle-culture sales-pitch theyre calling it now.
People are passionate. If someone lacks it? Someone or something trained them to be otherwise - usually mistakenly calling this a part of "discipline."
>Maybe they value being independent more than minimum wage
Excuse me? In the middle of a National, potentially global housing affordability crisis, where this locale is ground zero for some of the worst wage-to-rent ratios on Earth...
How in the world is not making minimum wage anything approaching "independent"? The app is a less caring boss than any human could be. If you get run over by a car? There is nothing to stop the app from penalizing you for missing deliveries, not opting-in for enough deliveries, or taking too long to deliver burritos while we're being taken to the hospital.
Independence? Thats a life that only comes from living wages.