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I failed to consider the audience.

> Perhaps we could make paying for such people voluntary?

I’d like to opt out of paying for war but sadly I can’t. My tax dollars going to help people instead of kill and oppress them seems like a huge upgrade.

What is your actual contribution to society? I'm going to assume you work at some useless startup (like most of us) that will be gone in a few years, having left nothing useful to society.

Is your work really helping society?

What, you’re not “Making the World a Better Place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols”?

In seriousness, I wish there was more self-awareness like this in our field.

Remember when every startup was claiming to make the world a better place?

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