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I think we can agree that it's not that hard to find ANY job as an experienced developer. However it's much more difficult to find a great, satisfying job. For that you need to navigate around a lot of corpo-bullshit type of projects, and Clojure has served me well as a useful filter in doing that. My reasoning is that Clojure is niche enough that when company is using it, you can assume that it's due to a deliberate technical choice, and not just because of its popularity. That tells me two things that are symptomatic, in my opinion, of a healthy tech company culture: - tech decisions are made by engineers, not by top-level executives, - their conclusions and bets align with mine because we all see and agree on Clojure's edge over more popular solutions.

Admittedly, there's always a risk that someone just followed the hype and got out of their depth but I think this risk is relatively small, because Clojure's no longer a new kid on a block and choosing a tech stack is a major decision and usually done by senior tech leadership, hopefully less hype driven.

Of course, Clojure is no silver bullet and it's just a tool that gives you enough rope to hang yourself. Messy codebases are just as possible as in other languages, especially when the team is new to lisps that are very different from mainstream languages, but that's a nature of software development - you learn with the experience. I do cringe when I look at the Clojure code I wrote when I was just starting and wasn't fully grasping Clojure's way of thinking, but the more I use it, the more I come to appreciate how powerful it is.

Low code platforms, at their core, allow you to define the software with data (from predefined components usually through UI) and that's how they enable super productivity, until you hit a wall.

Data Declarative programming paradigm could potentially achieve the same levels of productivity without its limitations but it's very difficult to get the right implementation.

The most interesting development in this area I had found, is Fulcro Rapid Application Development Tools [1] - a fullstack clojure framework that's performant, declarative and extensible. RAD is still alpha but it bases on battle-proved Fulcro. Once you hit the limits of declarative RAD you can easily extend it with regular Fulcro components which are, in their essence, a cheap abstraction over React/React Native components - offering industry standard performance.

Global Universal Basic Income and Global Carbon Tax.

Global GDP [1] = $142000bn

Human population [2] = 7.8bn

GUBI = $100 * 12 months * 7.8bn = $9360bn

$9360bn / $142000bn = 6.59% of global GDP

6.59% is below the common tax rate. If it could end all wars forever, wouldn't it be worth it?

Can you survive on $100 per month? Barely anywhere so people would still work but it would be a big step towards rebuilding trust among humanity.

We can only avoid violent dystopia if we solve communication and resource distribution problems.