Produce

You realise that you just described taxes, don't you?

2) Yes, I agree, PHP encourages you to write esoteric code. Oh wait, what the fuck am I smoking? Better yet, what are you smoking? You can do this in every language I know.

3) Use unit and functional testing. You do use automated testing, don't you?

I'm dreaming of a day when everyone owns a server.

Seriously, stop posting and upvoting these stupid as hell blog posts, install Varnish or load your content with AJAX. And most importantly, don't put your real name on posts like these.

>the problem with MVC as given is that you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers, because you don't know where else to put it.

What was that? You stuff all of your logic into controllers then claim that MVC is broken? Your ugly face is broken. Uglyface.

You can't do:

$something->doStuff()[0]

if(empty($something->doStuff()))

Overload fucking functions. Fuck.

What sucks:

The namespace separator.

The naming conventions of the core functions.

The speed.

But, overall it works and elegant solutions can be written.

Also, being competent in a market full of incompetents makes you valuable and getting a well paying job is easy. What's not to like about that?

I think that more important is the ability to at least be capable of identifying repetitive work and asking someone more skilled in programming to implement it. It's amazing what kind of basic things people miss when you're asking them about what could be automated. Sometimes, you need to sit next to them and watch them work just to identify the problem.

To put it another way, knowledge is power. Having the ability to use a machine which provides access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited knowledge is of paramount importance to society in the long term. It's just as important as literacy.

Now here's where it gets interesting. The mind is fully contained in the universe - it is physical. So emotions, thoughts and feelings are all things. They are emergent behaviors of this physical reality. Hence the dual mode of thought being incorrect - there is no distinction between objective and subjective, they are one and the same. So if the universe is deterministic and our experience is physical, then there is no free will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Africa

>One can say that's not what this discussion is about, i.e. it's the potential for equality, the right to be equal rather than the radical definition above, but then the discussion becomes muddled, how to measure inequality, economically (e.g. the Gini index), by asking people, etc. "Inequality" then becomes a very complicated word like "democracy" or "justice".

Personally, I think that it's very simple to define. We know from research that having more money, past the point of no longer being in poverty, does nothing significant to increase happiness. So, in my opinion, equality, in terms of money, is about nobody having to live in poverty and discomfort.

The democracy we are used to is Representative Democracy. When a few people hold all of the power, and we just get to vote for our dictators, what kind of democracy is that!? Personally, I think that Direct Democracy deserves more attention and experimentation. Some countries have been running it for years and their quality of life is among the best in the world.

In other words, our entire society needs to be re-educated in order to solve this problem, not just the poor.

>we would probably start to see the poor creating their own solutions, and further changing our societal structure.

Indeed we would, but we would also see a great deal of resistance to it from the powers that be. This needs to be addressed with equal importance. What's the point of bringing people up when others will just try to push them down more? We need to bring them up and make space to accommodate them.

>Anarchy is a condition of life without the intrusion of governance and the mechanisms and institutions of the state.

>Anarchism is the political philosophy which has anarchy as its goal.