There are a lot of thoughtful and insightful comments in this thread which I will look forward to reviewing with the care they deserve very grateful to each and

There are a lot of thoughtful and insightful comments in this thread which I will look forward to reviewing with the care they deserve very grateful to each and every one even the downvoted ones which I can totally understand too In short it's this -- corporacy held such a promise that we would be something far greater than ourselves It's well known that an organization that designs systems is bound to design systems which mirror the communication structures within the organization It's also known that any sufficiently large software system becomes a half baked implementation of common LISP with an email client tacked on for good measure You can tell a lot about a company by the software it creates and vice versa Rather than fix corporacy as a means to write the best software we're slogging along with a toxic casual mediocracy that's beginning to resemble a surveillance state policed by petty bureaucrats where initiative is punished in favour of disenfranchisement and the only way to build a career is to self deal with the bullies They say the only thing worse than running in politics is having others do it same goes for corporations As software and systems people we were supposed to fix the system from the inside for everyone remember people over processes agile is a disruptive paradigm and all that? Instead we threw t-shirts at it and told it to fix itself Somehow the tables have been turned on us and we've become the data you know what I mean I never signed up to have someone less qualified to do my thinking for me and force me into one of a few stereotyped roles while the bourgeois brats take all the profits I signed up to commune with gods and legends like Alan Turing do you suppose he cracked the enigma just to clear the road for this shit?