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From a developer perspective many aspects of the current system (with respect to resource usage and allocation) look like technical debt. Governments may try to
by mtrn 10y ago
From a developer perspective many aspects of the current system (with respect to resource usage and allocation) look like technical debt. Governments may try to make ends meet with limited budgets and come up with sometimes nonsensical or just not really thought out solutions to problems. Meanwhile the world learns about the Panama papers and related things, getting the impression, that not everybody is happy with contributing back to the community at large.
The simple minded software developers solution would be to radically cut out the cruft (complex laws and tax systems) and implement a simplified version, that would be harder to game and easier to debug.
- physicalist 10y ago...but in the world of software, everyone wants programs that work better. The very rich have no short term interest in a system that's hard to game. Therefore they're going to use their considerable influence to prevent just that.
- picklesman 10y agoWell, I've seen some cases of developers keeping things complex for their own self-interest, e.g. "Job Security". You could make a similar analogy here...
- ommunist 10y agoYou probably are talking about some alternative Universe. In this world programs are made to make certain shareholders rich by exploiting certain markets. Including creation of encapsulated artificial markets with maintaining artificial needs, Facebook being the good example.