> I run a B2B SaaS. Support costs is what eats you alive: in case of a complex B2B app anything below $40/month is unsustainable
I agree to an extent. But it largely depends on the complexity of your offering. If all you do is expose flat data through an API, you can maybe get away with an API Gateway x Lambda x DynamoDB combo, which would cost virtually nothing as the free tier is very generous.
> The broader narrative is one of increasing prosperity, GDP output and stock market profitability all over, yet the middle class struggles more and more to find every morsel to feed their hunger.
This can only mean one of two things: Either the narrative is wrong, or the narrative is a well concocted lie.
> In my country, the average voter wants their trash hauled away, but don't want any dumps or incinerators built. They want responsive public services, but they don't want tax increases, cuts to other services, or a deficit. They want good care for the elderly,
Many "undemocratic" nations have functioning public services, clean streets, low to virtually no-crime and good universities.
> but they don't want to spend more on care workers, or to give the jobs to poorly paid immigrants.
In a capitalist economy part of a global marketplace, you are not "owed" jobs.
Talking of "Jon" and "Skeet", there is a fairly well known programmer called Jon Skeet. If you are a C# developer good chance he has answered you stack overflow question!
If you are a bit older, you'd remember the same guy fighting for Java in bloody flame wars against C and C++ on Usenet. When I first saw him as a C# devotee on Stack Overflow, I was surprised it's the same guy.
> Thankfully there are alternative currencies that can be used for that nowadays.
Iraq and Libya have tried, and look what's happened to them ...
The main reason countries are using the USD as the reserve currency is because if they don't, the "Free World TM" will bomb them back to the stone age.
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