Making things complex is part of the business.
Today this observation is common among almost everybody. I will add "Making useless things" ("useless" in every sense of the word), and "inventing new (consumer) needs" (invent vs discover) and "working more (stressful) hours". But why? We were told that the Free Market and especially that "Invisible Hand" will take care of itself and select the most optimum solutions for our comfort and happiness as human beings. Today it is obvious that this is pre-conditioned on profit aligning with happiness. A claim that it was so lame, in hindsight.
I have already expressed my opinion in other posts about the above and how Perl's TIMTOWTDI is a good thing, in that it allows for the exploration of solution space. I would like to see TIMTOWTDI be integral in any future political and economic system (with safeguards against "TIMTOWTDI to screw you!") as this one will either eat us or we will eat it. The Programming Republic of Perl (the ideology of this statement and also the character of the community) can be a bigger thing than just InfoTech.
bw, bliako
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