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That would be a big improvement in the remote work economy.

Good for them and the parents.

None of that stuff would be possible without government. It's a statism run amok.

It's the same story every time. Something works relatively OK (US health care before 20 century big-gov), huge changes to incentive structure and overheads are introduced by statists ignoring higher order effects, everything goes downhill, statists blame capitalism.

Let me legally not have insurance, pay anyone in cash for my health care (no licensens and government enforced monopolies), and buy any medicine I'd like and opt out of this madness completely and let's compare with real capitalism.

Good example why using HTMX is usually a great idea. You can do your joins right there in the DB, it's easy and natural.

SPAs are only a good idea if you ignore all the complexity required to make them actually work decently - like carrying over the whole data model all the way to the frontend app.

I like KDE on technical level, but I can never fully reproduce the Gnome's "Meta key/hot right upper corner expose" flow, which really grew onto me over the years. Also, last time I tried (a year ago) it was simply crashing around once a day which was a deal breaker.

Why didn't Madoff just slow down to pay off the ponzi during the good times?

Do you apply the same reasoning when government tells you something else that is obviously true and good advise, e.g. to wash your hands after you used a restroom?

First you hire more selectively, slower, with higher "fit" requirements (talented, flexible, aligned with technical choices), and everyone are well motivated, so it just doesn't happen that often. You just accept that people vary, some will have better ideas, more productive, go through things, etc. and that's OK. People should not have to constantly stress about their day to day peformance that much. But when there is a problem, multiple people talk about it with the top leadership over time and then it's eventually handled the usual way.

Yes. I work in 2nd one in my life currently, around 30 people, 15 technical/15 non-technical, remote. Not a single manager. I think we can scale it to 50. At some size I guess it would become harder, but I'd like to think it the spirit of it can be kept (lean and very low managers head count, just for coordination, HR and severe conflict resoultions stuff; let the people do their job and take accountability, pay them well and don't make them play carrier ladder games and internal competition trying to get promoted and destroying the cooperative culture).

Coherent group of adults can hire, support, set expectations, evaluate contributions and resolve conflict among themselves. If someone really does a bad job, the group will build a consensus and escalate the problem. If you save on managers, you can pay more people that actually do the work, so they don't have to beg for reasonable compensation every month, make up bullshit to justify their employment, and waste time "being managed". Instead they can focus on doing what needs to be done. If there's no ladder to climb, performance reviews and internal competition, people who are not satisfied with the work itself, and just look for titles and promotions will just leave. The things that do sometimes need escalation, can be handled by the owners/leadership.

Reasonable high caliber people don't need to be "managed". You can manage people working in the restaurant, make them a schedule, make sure they show up, etc. In a creative and intellectually challenging industry like SWE, why would you hire most bright people to pay them lots of money and then think they require continuous "managing". They might need someone to report to and escalate when need arises but that should be very lightweight.

Generally managers are used for handling failure of culture and the cause of that failure at the same time. If you are running a shitty shop, full of crappy devs, who you want to pay crappily, then you need a manager for ~ every 8 people, to whip them and make sure they are doing their jobs, and get fired if they don't.

It didn't become, just suppressing what was already there is gone.

Taking on debt or agreeing on contracts is voluntary (unless violence is used).

Lobbying could maybe be considered violence by proxy because state can use violence.

Violence has meaning, and trying to abuse it to put every single thing someone finds "unfair" under the umbrella of violence is ridiculous thing to do, and leads to all that idiots who start violence thinking that someone else's non-violent acts or even thoughts justify it.

Sure email became terribly centralized to the point of self-hosting being near impossible. Primarily because it's super old. But you can still use Protonmail or Fastmail. And email is less important as a communication platform than it ever was . Nowadays it feels like mostly an ID-verification system.

If things become bad enough - people will just use something else.

There is no feudalism without violence.

No one is forcing anyone to host stuff in the cloud, no one is forcing anyone to use Gmail, no one is forcing anyone to use iPhone or Android device, use Facebook or Twitter, etc.

Everybody does it because with their personal calculation they figured out they rather suffer some loss in freedom than spend time on alternatives.

There are just some good old fashion monopolies/oligopolies extracting as much value as they can. Without state forcing something (which is possible but currently does not seem to happen), there is no serfdom.

No one is using Apple laptops because they were forced at the gunpoint. They are just preferring longer battery life or whatever excuse over the ownership of their device and software. It's not a cage if the door is open and you're just too lazy to leave.

As a matter of fact FOSS alternatives are better than ever were, and hosting stuff outside of major clouds is also very convenient.