Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - 2nd Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

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I have seen and experienced similar things in open-source communities. Firefox and Perl (or Ruby, it was some previous stone named language/framework) are two OSS projects that have been barraged by newcomers who contribute very little effective code and tend to complain. I'll never forget reading the Bugzilla logs for Firefox where people were actively claiming that the FF extension of .bro was indicative of a male hierarchy.

Meritocracy is a step in the right direction IMO, but even meritocracies have problems. The definition of meritocracy is as follows "Rule by merit, and talent. By extension, now often used to describe a type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition." Meritocracy is good, but it does rely in a loose definition of "merit" who has more merit? The boss who makes a single smart decision and brings a company to the forefront of profit, or a workerman who spends 20 years doing manual labour without so much as a complaint. Meritocracy has several divisions within itself, saying that meritocracy is the ideal society is like saying your favourite food is fruit. Does it answer the question? Half-heartedly, but it is quite general.

What people should be asking for is a technocracy (or at least that seems the best option IMO). A technocracy is defined as: "A system of governance where people who are skilled or proficient govern in their respective areas of expertise. A type of meritocracy based on people's ability and knowledge in a given area." It is where people are allowed a job based on technical ability. But even then, society in this aspect is better, but not perfect. First, if a workerman is a good workerman will he be a workerman forever? Will he ever be given a chance to prove his other skills at any point? People should have the freedom to choose and given apt time to build their skills. A single misstep should not cost a person their livelyhood. Also, we need factory workers, even if they could be replaced with automated systems, a working disparity even within a technocracy lends itself to a society in which classes are brought by intelligence and specialization. This is not bad, but think of how classes work today. The upper escalations would remain elite while the lowers would only become more brain dead over time.

tldr; Give people with technical skill for a profession that profession and shut up. Also we need worker bees and people should all be given chances, yatta yatta, SJWs are actually really bad for all things considered because their aim is to normalize humanity with respect to its lowest common denominator

Do it! You won't be disappointed. I never knew how much I loved programming until all my variables were pink. sublime3+package manager is the best!