| > If you all love problem solving why aren't you doing anything in this space? Gonna be real for a second here. 1. I love problem solving in that I love solving puzzles -- LeetCode challenges, system design problems, optimizing things where there are clear wrongs and rights. Moral gray areas make my engineering/math-loving brain uncomfortable! 2. Because I have a high paying job in the tech sector that lets me and my family live comfortably, and so long as I don't read too much news or have to engage with people who sleep on the street, I won't act. Also, all my friends and peers are also upper middle class and give me a nice cushy social bubble that never challenges me or exposes me to the realities of people unlike me. 3. Moral posturing on HN with armchair solutions is easy -- I love pretending that my rationality gained from years of engineering experience somehow position me to have realistic solutions to things like homelessness/gun violence/housing; so I'll comment here with my solutions, but don't dare expect me to ever put any effort into actualizing my solutions. We are mostly OK living in a city with homelessness, drug addicts, obese people, and poor disadvantaged youth because on some level we believe it was by their choice that they are in the position they are in. |