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Wait no, not like that.
Sure, it needs some love and there were some abstractions. For instance it assumed we had a labeled dataset for the text and the associated sentiment, but beyond that it worked fine.
I see the point you're driving at but the democratic institution of the US has explicit guard rails against this. We force presidents to step down because we _know_ that voluntary relinquishing of power is unlikely.
I do see money as a proxy for power. If you make enough of it you can influence public opinion, enrich or destroy education, buy twitter, etc.
2) In my own little bubble, no one I know is particularly fulfilled by creating crud API's and gluing together microservices. I'd bet that with guaranteed financial stability finding meaning in life would become easier, not harder.
I'd be interested in seeing this compared to other non-tech job postings. I'd expect the trends wouldn't match entirely but that software development jobs are still in higher demand.
Adding to what was said about high quality customer feedback, a downturn will tend to more quickly expose weak product market fit. In lean times, companies are less likely to experiment with new tools or processes that don't have strong and clear value propositions. If you're targeting an emerging or growing market a downturn may be a good time to test that markets' staying power.
Early in my career, my manager gave me the feedback that sometimes my eagerness to participate outsized my ability to understand. I never meant to suck the air out of the room, I was just so excited to build cool stuff! He recommended reading up on Stephen Covey and suggested that when collaborating on designs/debugging/etc. as a team, to practice being the last to speak. Life-changing advice.