> In the end, the person writing the code is just a cog in the machine. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but everyone is a cog in the machine. The person run

> In the end, the person writing the code is just a cog in the machine. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but everyone is a cog in the machine. The person running the company is a cog in the machine. The person running the country is a cog in the machine. And, more than that, there's no hierarchy, there's no order. A person may go their entire lives working as a cleaner, looking up at the person running the company, and that person may look up at the pension fund that owns their company, which fund in turn exists to invest the pension of the cleaner. The world is a graph, not a tree. In the context of the dynamical chaos that we call the world, some people like to take pride in their craft. I think that's OK.