How are people still buying into the whole "voting with your wallet" crap?

Most people don't care and so don't vote with their wallet.

Also, people don't realize that sometimes it doesn't even matter

Enough people don't care, don't notice, or in the worst case, even when they do, if the companies band together and don't give people a choice, eventually they will cave and thats what i predict will happen here

In the future i suspect most people's homes will have ads, except for nerds who will have rooted their devices. and hopefully their moms.

A lot of people have gotten so used to their entire lives being saturated in ads that they don't even notice them anymore.

there are enough people who do care to matter. Sometimes we settle for not great answers, but there are generally options for those who care.

It's getting very annoying to see posts that use ChatGPT as source, sadly it seems like this is the future.

I used to feel this way until management made AI tools mandatory.

I wonder the same thing.

Jesus, can't people have fun anymore? Does everything have to be "important for humanity"?

Do you listen to music, read books, have sex etc? I bet you do. And I also bet that you would find it pretty ridiculous if someone asked you why you do those things instead of helping humanity.

Man, this FFI looks extremely clean!

Author here.

I have zero C experience and I have to say the coffi library (clojure macros that wrap Java 22's Panama FFI) is super slick. Next thing I know I'm using pointers and arenas. I'm still amazed that it all works.

To be fair the SQLite C API docs are incredible and made the whole experience much more enjoyable.

Clojure has this

    user=> (#(println %1 %2) "Hello " "Clojure")
    Hello Clojure

> making six figures typing away in a well furnished office

I don't know about you but I don't make anything even remotely close to six figures...

The average US software dev does.

You know, there's a lot more to the working class than just manual labor. Anyone that depends on a wage to live is a worker, and we all share the same struggles.

The same struggles, like the quality of the office coffee machine? Bike subsidies from the employer too low?

No, things like: we obtain money by working rather than by pumping assets. We pay income tax rather than capital gains tax. Our employers are always asking for more while paying less. We do not individually have enough assets to make individual lobbying efforts EV positive, but our employers and the largest shareholders sure do. Politics is an expense for us but an investment for them -- unless we join together.

Structurally we are more similar than different, even if tech workers have had it good for the last while.

Things like unpaid overtime, health insurance being tied to employment, the ability to afford a house on what should be a reasonable income, protections from harassment/discrimination... unions have worked toward democratizing access to all of these things.