Does it though? Numbers I look at don’t seem to support that.
I find these “as a profession” enactments more to be self-congratulory rituals than anything else. It is like trying to clear your disk storage space through deleting thousands of 1kb files while gigabytes of old movies are staying there hogging the most space.
Besides, I don’t understand why people has to be reduced to their professions. We are also citizens and voters, and the lion’s share of the change can only be done through policy.
The saying goes penny wise, pound foolish. Sometimes it is indeed foolish to focus on micro and miss the greater perspective.
Exactly, think about the amount of time wasted on a solved problem. You could just run your servers from Iceland which has an abundance of renewable energy and spend all those man hours on unsolved problems.
I find these “as a profession” enactments more to be self-congratulory rituals than anything else. It is like trying to clear your disk storage space through deleting thousands of 1kb files while gigabytes of old movies are staying there hogging the most space.
Besides, I don’t understand why people has to be reduced to their professions. We are also citizens and voters, and the lion’s share of the change can only be done through policy.
The saying goes penny wise, pound foolish. Sometimes it is indeed foolish to focus on micro and miss the greater perspective.