Yet again an excellent essay. It is very sad that these days pg is literally the only one in the programming space who writes essays for free spirits.

Ten years ago these opinions would not have been extraordinary, but programmers as a group seem to have been subject to successful $BIGCORP reeducation in the last decade.

Yes, the independently-minded people who created the original organization and the value must refuse to let parasitical people in.

pg cannot use this term in his essays, but it boils down to that, at least in the software space.

In agriculture etc. of course conventional minded people do excellent work and create tremendous value.