Building software is a task for experts, who have spent years if not decades learning the technical sciences. It's going to be next impossible for someone who h

Building software is a task for experts, who have spent years if not decades learning the technical sciences. It's going to be next impossible for someone who has such a deep knowledge of a field to re-specialize into a policy economist and also retain their previous skills. You don't see economists deciding and dictating you how software should be built and what technological stack to use, presumably because they have the foresight to assume you are an expert in your field and can do so better than them. My point is thus: leave it to the experts in their own field. The hubris required to believe that software engineers can somehow "take responsibility" overnight to create a "fair, just, open, and economically robust society" and do so better than experts, is astonishing. This isn't directed in particular at anyone and isn't mean as an insult, but the amount of economic illiteracy here on HN is staggering, but that's not the annoying part. The annoying part is that there is at the very least a vocal minority of software engineers who believe they have the solutions to hard problems in other fields, typically negligent of the problems and of the nuances of that field and most frequently of limitations of human nature itself.