[carsongross]

"It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest."

"The traditional disciplines of engineering—civil, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, electrical, environmental—are civic professions as much as technical ones."

I would like to introduce the author to something called "Open" "Source":

https://github.com/explore

The server that his article is reaching the world via is almost certainly running multiple pieces of infrastructure designed and built in the public interest, and given away for free.

Software suffers from being universal, inexpensive and omnipresent, so people notice all the crap (I certainly bitch about software quality myself) while ignoring the thousand miracles per minute that it provides for us.