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Salon is a vile leftist propaganda shop. Reagan turned around a stagnant economy through deregulation. He freed millions of people from the evil of communism. He defeated the Soviet Union and he rebuilt Americas military.

Lots? Which ones? And for how long?

Same poison different bottle. Socialism is a memetic meme that leads to totalitarianism everytime. Why? Because it centralizes power and always fails. As it inevitably fails the ideology is never blamed, just faulted for being impure, and therefore in need of a stronger dose. Since the structure of control is already in place, the measures become more extreme and its ideological opponents demonized and propagandized as the cause to divert attention from the root cause. Even a cursory look at the history of leftist movements shows the same pattern and same end result of misery. You already see elements of this on the left in America, were SJW extremists think nothing of destroying peoples lives and careers.

This is beyond fantasy.

Nearly everyone in America has a smart phone in their pocket more powerful than the most powerful computers of just a few years ago. On that device is all of worlds information, a Google search away. What do people mostly do with this access and power - nothing - Facebook, Reddit, and other distractions. Giving people handouts will not lead to an revolution of art, culture, and businesses... It will lead to sloth, resentment, and failure.

Our society already produces enough abundance and opportunity such that any hardworking individual can EARN a life that most people in history could only dream about.

It's not "for free" it is free. No quotes.

Every dollar taken out of their pocket to pay someone else's bills is less money they have to spend on their children's education and for taking time to travel, among other things.

Generosity is a private choice and government has no business in making it public, except that it buys votes to empower politicians.

Whiteboard exercises, homework, and pair programming are ridiculous ways to test a candidate.

Code samples tell me more about an engineer than absurd and contrived and time pressured tests that have no relationship to how real engineers solve problems.

Non-tech people are nurses (male or female), engineers (male or female) are the doctors. The problem in most companies are that the nurses tell the doctors what to do. That's completely backwards.

Non-tech people have no business managing technical people's time. They are grossly unqualified to do so. The only purpose of non-tech people in an engineering organization is to act in a service capacity, removing obstacles that prevent the engineers from working efficient.

The problem isn't money in politics, the problem is government. Nearly all taxes that don't fund a very limited set of government functions should be completely eliminated.

Your tax money is what gives politicians power. Leftists want more government, more taxes, and centralization of power into the hands of even fewer politicians and yet are puzzled - dumbfounded even - why things are "working". Bernie Sanders is a Hugo Chavez, a fool.

The comment was a civil answer to an accusation of ageism. I suggest the post itself is in violation since it is political in nature and non-technical. I respect this forum.