Not replying directly to OP, just to people who never coded in C++.
Clang-format doesn’t save you from all C++ footguns, e.g. using exceptions, macros or templates in the wrong way where „wrong“ is defined by a fuzzy set of rules that requires a lot of experience and vigilance to enforce.
The Guardian is so complicit in reinforcing all of those misleading, industry-driven narratives that it’s not even funny. Completely co-opted.
Philosophers should be used in RL training to train the model how to reason well, not to scratch their heads about the ontological nature of a table of floats.
China has its own ideology which upholds the power structures over there. It's very different from its western counterpart.
Part of it is that yes there may not be freedom of expression, but thanks to the Party's competent guidance the great Chinese nation is restoring its rightful place as a world leader.
Ideology isn't something you can avoid. It's always present in a society to support the power structures. Conflating "just having markets" with the current form of capitalism in western countries is exactly the kind of work needed to uphold the "obvious truths" that keep things going.
That's most certainly not what happens! The money that goes into buying a stock is being transferred to the people who sold you the stock (which, outside of the IPO are almost always market players).
A company with a high stock price can "save money" by paying employees in stock, borrowing money cheaper, but it's NOT a primary way of funding the company.
That does sometimes happen - investment does cause development. The mistake is to assume that's always what happens, and that everybody can benefit from the development.
You're conflating compounding market value with economic growth. One counterexample is when inflation raises prices, but not economic output. Asset prices grow but there's no growth.