pimple20

That's not really the point of ORMs though. It's map your data objects in code to your entitled in your relational database. That it comes with a SQL builder is just a necessity in order for the mapping to be done by the ORM. You can still write raw sql with most ORMs, but then you won't get the mapping which is the point. In some cases you will need to do that and that's fine. Hiding complex SQL isn't the goal

Not risk their employees' lives just to keep the Musk profit machine going? Let their workers stay safe while collecting unemployment benefit?

No shot he's losing sleep. You're thinking of normal people who take care of their own kids, not billionaires who have in house staff

Snowden basically told the Western world how much access to their online data governments have, but people don't seem to care. Yet, they care that China does it for some reason