Cuba has already shown the World the way forward with their Green Revolution.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-good-l...

..yet

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

― Upton Sinclair

“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony”

― Niccolò Machiavelli

King! King! No point in the thing!

This is described as The Object-relational Impedance Mismatch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mi...

Thanks you Cal for the insightful and concise article!

Restructuring is a prudent proposal, but jail time is needed.

I don't disagree, but I don't think you can find a single person who is fully responsible for the failures. This was an institutional failure caused by a combination of regulatory capture and erosion of the firewall between sales and engineering.

I pay taxes on my income and again at the point of sale.

and you pay capital gains if something you owns appreciates and you sell it.

Lanier's local-global flip.

Haven't you heard? Devs aren't going to need us any more. They've been telling us that since the 70's, at least!

They did, their politicians just spent it all on battleships.