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Guess who they let make something that simple? Some generic business analyst who left and nobody else knew how to support it.
That second last word there is why developers will never go away.
This is the one aspect I feel like most people gloss over the most. Most people I graduated high school with are dual income households.
My city made a huge family tree database and I traced back all my anscestors to the 1500's of one branch and around the 1600's of another. It was fascinating to see I had lineage to the Polish Baltics, Northern and Southern Germany, England, and French Canadian as well.
What was a revelation to me was, I never heard of these people from my family. The only significant contribution to my life these people honestly made was the simple fact that they reproduced. I had no connection, identity, or care for who they were.
So in all, it truly made me realize, life has absolutely no purpose, and your contributions most likely won't even be permanently valuable. The only true sense of permanence that one can contribute to humanity is reproducing, and hoping your offspring will do so as well.
If you're born of the working class, chances are you will stay there unless you can figure out a way via labor or relationships to get out. More often than not, people don't/can't.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ballmer-snatches-microsoft-e...
Long story short, pay your bill.
Just because it goes against modern cultural ways of thinking does not make it wrong. You're then asserting Western ideology is the superior way of life also implying all others are inferior. You judge people just like priests in the Spanish inquisition, but instead of Christianity, you use "Western Thought" as your religious motive to criticize other means of thinking. If racism did not garner any success for peoples, those people would not be successful. Yet here we are. I'm not advocating for it because I'm not a moron. But I am saying that it on a sociological level is beneficial at certain times. Pretending that your "holier than thou" mentality while not having lived in those times/areas is truly the epitome of Western liberalism. You like to be the white savior but forget people are animals at the end of the day.
Jesus...I mean even Anthony Bourdain had an episode in Haiti where they bought food for a bunch of people and it erupted into chaos. He even commented about the very thing I'm talking about with people being animals. You put scare resources and ways of life on the line, and people will revert back to their same old primitive ways. Why do you think the Western world has fantasies about things like "The Purge" or "Survivor?" Because they're impervious toward acting tribalistic? No it's because it's a basic fundamental part of who we are.
The thing is, most kids go to school not knowing what they want to do. If that is the case, going to college is the absolute worst possible decision you could ever make. On top of that, you might even be going into a field you despise but can't back out now.
In a past life, I tried the general laborer gamit and it's impossible to get a job there too. Simply cause nobody hires you unless it's by word of mouth. So it's even worse than being shut out for not having a degree. So overall, it's no so much that people don't believe that they need a degree, it's the path of least resistance since you can at least get your foot in the door through a company once you pass the minimum qualifications. General labor stuff, good luck getting a job in a specialized field. I tried breaking into HVAC and I couldn't even get an unpaid apprenticeship cause people just won't do it.
This logic right here is the antithesis to true rationalism. You act as though your reason is more sound than someone elses simply because you deem your ways as the "ultimate" way. A Muslim in Pakistan may not consider your form of justice as the same as a Sikh in Suriname. You just jump to conclusions that any affront to your rationality is an attack on values of "goodness for mankind" as a whole. It's absolutely no different than a religion. So while you may not be a Muslim, you may find many Islamic teachings abhorrent. But to certain Muslims, they see you as an infidel or as the heathenous one who is striving from a path of moral goodness.
This is exactly why western liberalism is such an affront to the world over. It is filled with too many pompous white people who think that because they became successful in this system, they can extend their white savior complex to others by force. Simply through justification that they believe they hold the keys to true morality.
Western liberalism is no different than the Catholic Church in the middle ages. Constantly abusing the witchhunt of morality upon others. Incessantly purporting that nobody else holds the keys and that any questioning of the belief is heresy.