The additional joke is that some companies reduced office desks because of hybrid/remote and now ask to people to come back. Ready for the "best" of both worlds ?
Nobody cares for people like me, but the consequences of the actions of this guy may now impact life of millions. Questionning his sanity, ethics, sense of priorities is always a matter of public interest. I don't know if HN is the place for that though.
I agree also with most of the rant but the part about state/municipal jobs looks a bit unfair to me.
If you have ever volonteer or worked for this kind of job, you could find that many people are so ungrateful: only few care to answer polls or attend public meetings, almost nobody cares about the why. But when something changes, lots of loud mouths shout rants like this one.
People sometimes don't imagine how hard this is to have basic consensus on anything when there is lots of people in a group.
Doing anything is also so complicated nowadays with the numerous parts involved in any decision, each one having their own priority set and timelines, the constraints of the law...
The care is certainly not the only reason of having broken things.
