I doubt any of the IT infrastructure in Canada is build by the “best of us”. And it shows, banking, healthcare, telecom, they are all stuck somewhere in the 90s.
And even if you are into charity, it's usually more efficient for you as an individual to make more money and then donate to whatever GiweWell lists at the top of their list of most bang-for-your-back charities. Instead of working in a soup kitchen, or a Canadian bank.
For example, mobile phone connectivity is still very regulated, but in many countries competition seems to be much fiercer there than for home broadband.
I am curious. What are some of those aspects?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...
About the last: the (partial) privatisation of British Rail was a mess. Far from a textbook case. But still ridership numbers that had been in seeming terminal decline picked up in absolute terms, and rail's relative share of the overall transportation market increases total.
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/AirlineDeregulation.htm...
The impact of deregulation of (American) airlines has been tremendous. Flying is now cheaper than ever. But to address my point: flying is still very strictly regulated, just less so than before (especially in the areas of pricing and competition).
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/TruckingDeregulation.htm...
https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SurfaceFreightTransporta...
Despite common complaints on the Internet, the US is actually still really, really good at running railroads. It's just that their area of competence is freight rail. Passenger rail in the US is anemic.
Guess which part is in government hands, and which one is comparatively free market and less regulated? However, neither area is completely free market or completely state controlled.
Another example: a few years ago Germany legalized long distance busses. The old ban was a hangover from the Nazi era.
https://www.dw.com/en/regulations-eased-on-long-distance-bus... is an overview article from just before the legalization of busses came into effect. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find some sources from afterwards. Google Translate might be helpful, if you don't read German.
And, of course, legalization and deregulation here just mean different (and a bit less) regulation. There's still plenty of rules. We are talking about Germany, after all.
Working purely for money and being emotionally detached from your work is one of the bad consequence of capitalism -- in fact it's the most hellish consequence of capitalism that most people working software development jobs are likely to personally experience. I don't understand why people working at adtech companies talk about being emotionally checked out all day as a healthy way to adapt to the system.
I can tell you that jobs sucked compared to comparatively capitalist West Germany.
(Basically, capitalism might or might not be bad; but incremental improvements to it have a much better track record that trying to switch to a completely different system.)
I used to work for Google for a while. The gig was pretty cushy, but I could have still rattled off lots of complaints, if you asked me.
Almost any programmer job is almost infinitely better than what most normal people have to put up with. And better paid.
Kaiser arguably did more innovation than OneMedical, as far as I can tell.
These are sleepy places where you go to work 15 hours a week and on demanding days call in sick.
But besides there being no money in it, between regulatory hurdles, fragmented ecosystems and lack of incentives for individual doctors or hospitals to be good at sharing or maintaining these types of records, I could give the software away for free and still fail to gain traction.
In all of these spaces I don’t see how it progresses without government regulation and/or incentives, because the incumbents have literally no reason to improve.
It's just tech debt. If you've ever been to China, it's crazy how well WeChat works. There's just nothing like it in the EU or the US because we have 20 different decades old things for everything that people can't or won't replace.
Some of the eHealth stuff uses active FTP connections, so this isn't even an exaggeration.
I ruled out the USA because of the CFAA. I do not like second guessing everything I do online whether it violates a badly written federal law. Of course, United States v. Elcom Ltd. didn't make me much happier. Three Felonies A Day came out later and it just strengthens all this. We also should mention the almost complete lack of social net and the insane health care system.
There are numerous arguments that by now the United States is a failed state https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-usa-election/ https://eand.co/how-america-collapsed-and-became-a-fourth-wo... etc.