Shareholders = society. The rest of us are just the help

Also due to tax structures changing in ways the discouraged long term r&d for existing companies. Largely replaced with a university driven model today, or hyped based fake it till you make it startup investment

Although from the perspective of most of the world, the US is also very work oriented. We also work some of the longest hours

The American work week has been progressively shortening over the years: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/658235/why-americans-workin...

Americans including myself love saying we’re busy though.

> Thinking about your primary job: On average, how many hours do you work per week?

Not really sure they are measuring what they think they are measuring. This being more pronounced amongst young people may be because working long is being seen as less and less cool, as there has been a major vibe shift among young workers regarding their relationships with employers. Doesn't necessarily mean they are actually working less, might mean they don't want to admit it.

Revealed concrete hours would be much more trustworthy

It's inability to be compiled from source without a fork of the zig compiler made it unusable in many corporate environments that require deps all be from source as well (or very hard to integrate at least)

Isn't it often combined with poor bounds checks to be exploitable? It's not as if rust or VM based languages don't help a lot with this

Can't rock the boat too much, when the captain has a lot of money

Yeah, I had thought so as well. Lots of big Linux projects use them. Very brand damaging post in my opinion

They can be efficient, but I ly if the incentives align towards the desired definition of efficiency. If you give a company a natural monopoly and protection from competition. Then it's most efficient way to make money is just to raise rates

"Verification not ready, try again"

I'd back a bill to ban AI from scholls in many contexts, just like phones I think it's pretty obvious what the result will be.

I guess like with phones we'll all have to pretend it's not obvious for ten years until we have overwhelming scientific evidence, then wait another ten for US policy makers to start talking about making a committee to design a study to develop a plan