There's No Ethical Production in Capitalism
It's been a while! Sorry about that. I tried to write on one of my book ideas and ran out of spare time. Part of the reason is that I am in an absolute crisis of faith with my current career path. I got fifteen years of Ruby on Rails under my belt. I picked up Ruby because I was fascinated by object-oriented programming (I still am all these years later) and right when I slipped into the career every startup was told Rails was "the thing" to use, so I was high in demand. Ruby on Rails was made by David Hamburger Helper (not his actually name but it doesn't matter, we'll just call him DHH cause that's how you've heard of him). In the Open Source tradition, since he made it, he was crowned the benevolent dictator for life. Turns out... the benevolent part of that equation was optional. He's explicitly racist and fascist in thought and action. This article is a year old so just imagine DHH has only gotten worse (he has). I needed an image and since I...