> >Some people don’t want to work. They’ve told me so

> ...and? That's fine.

Clearly there's a difference in ideologies here.

I have no interest in covering the living expenses of a person who can but won't work.

Perhaps we could make paying for such people voluntary? I.e., when filing their taxes, people have the option to donate as much as they like to cover the government's costs for people who chose not to work. That could be fair for everyone involved.

> Perhaps we could make paying for such people voluntary?

I’d like to opt out of paying for war but sadly I can’t. My tax dollars going to help people instead of kill and oppress them seems like a huge upgrade.

What is your actual contribution to society? I'm going to assume you work at some useless startup (like most of us) that will be gone in a few years, having left nothing useful to society.

Is your work really helping society?

What, you’re not “Making the World a Better Place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols”?

In seriousness, I wish there was more self-awareness like this in our field.

Remember when every startup was claiming to make the world a better place?