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The wealth gap and wages not keeping up with inflation is a large part of the problem.

There's no trickle down just trickle up. Giving Bezos, Zuckerberg, Benoiff, corporations more money isn't going to create more jobs.

If there's no money for consumers to spend these B2C companies will have less need for B2B software that most of us build.

Or it could be that TikTok is just getting started which it seems it is and selling it off to a US company would just be giving away a lot more potential future profits and close the door completely to operating in the US again.

I don't have any good answers for you re building a community as usually people will only come if there's money. So if you could create some kind of marketplace where customers could ask for things to be built and then devs could build and make some money from it then that might work. But starting a two-sided marketplace is hard ... or so they say.

But I mainly wanted to comment and say I started learning F# recently getting a bit into Elmish and think F# is a pragmatic language and would love to learn more but there is a lack of large F# codebases to learn from. So would be interested in taking a peek at how one would construct a large F# codebase targeting the enterprise if this does ever get released.

The main problem IMO was the Metro UI which while different from other mobile OSes was too different. It was too cold and futuristic. Games on the platform run really slow compared to other mobile platforms. And games are the number one apps that is carrying iOS.

I loved cutting grass but don't have a yard anymore as I live in an apt :(

Totally agree WPF is awesome. And WinRT/Silverlight don't hold a candle to it. Only thing is WPF performance and verboseness could be better.

Look into selling covered calls or vertical spreads for part of your portfolio as recurring monthly revenue.

Chrome Version 33.0.1750.117 m on Win 8.1 doesn't show text either.

It would be adding several more months to project completion, and then recurring maintenance costs that overtime costs much more money.