Yeah this sounds like religion to me. Believe it is true and you will believe it is true. Also, you didnt address what I wrote, only the argument you think I was making

I hated every particle of Playor Piano when I read it and still do today. Granted my field is automation and I am an engineer.

I am making the world a better place. Freeing humans from degrading filthy boring work. You know what really irked me the most about that novel? The population lived in a freaken utopia and couldn’t say one good thing about it.

I would love to have the lives of those “workers”. Think of what you could do with a life where your job required nothing out of you. Go have 8 kids, learn conversational French, become the world champion at the knife game. They start life on near the top of Maslow’s hierarchy and the author had the gall to heavily handed compare them to chattle slaves. Yeah I am sure people getting sold for sex or getting whipped to harvest cotton all day are really comparable in lifestyle to people who are bored at work.

An uncle of mine ran a funeral home. He and his staff took hygiene freaken seriously.

Might be local government. Me and sales have this argument pretty often

Me: it is in the spec

Sales: no one noticed it except you

Me: thanks?

Sales: no one is going to care

Me: then take it out of the spec and resign everything.

Sales: why are you making a big deal about this?

Me: because it is in the spec that we signed and if we don’t honor the spec they can backcharge us.

Sales: that won’t happen

Me: you are right because we are going to follow the spec. If you don’t want me to please email me, the department head, and the client specifically ordering me not to follow the contract that we signed.

I worked for a company like that. Wall Street shits bought us up and sold everything that wasn’t bolted down.

Can confirm. I am the smelly guy. Leave me alone and you get code. Bother me and you don’t.

Military equipment is sold to the PRC and mislabeled as COTS, i.e. civilian.