they are mostly underlining the fact that the whole situation is about corruption and that it would easily please the corrupt if they benefited financially. and they ate the bait.
"learn a dozen technologies to the point of being an expert on all fields and then waste 2 months of work on each app, which will update every three days"
every ad network does this. right before the pandemic the new feature released on all big five was digital-out-of-home, which is the literal plot of dystopian movies... outdoors targeted to people passing by.
after that they all added targeting by weather (latest fine grained targeting under gdpr) and BT beacon tracking.
fun fact, google uses BT on your phone to mark of you entered a store after seeing an ad for it to get paid for the "conversion".
heh. this reminds me that google just last week updated all their system apps (maps, calendar, clock) to include mandatory, no way to disable, weather. now they can phone home every time you look at the time or set up an alarm even under GDPR.
maybe we should all start to add "evaluated a hadoop cluster for X applications and saved the company 1mi (in time, headcount, and uptime) a year going with a 40line perl script"
you were also a privilege person in the West and oblivious to poorer people outside of larger cities as the people you saw in China being oblivious to poorer people living outside of larger cities. foreigners, no matter how privileged, hardly can live inside the safety bubbles you yourself lived in the west.
