It's a stupid over-complication of stuff you do every day while programming. It's these annoying science-y, elitist words that keep people away from programming

It's a stupid over-complication of stuff you do every day while programming. It's these annoying science-y, elitist words that keep people away from programming. A monoid is just an operation you perform on things that are similar. The concat() function in JS is a monoid.