“From the slimy, spittle-drenched, sidewalk, they were picking up bits of orange peel, apple skin, and grape stems, and, they were eating them. The pits of greengage plums they cracked between their teeth for the kernels inside. They picked up stray bits of bread the size of peas, apple cores so black and dirty one would not take them to be apple cores, and these things these two men took into their mouths, and chewed them, and swallowed them; and this, between six and seven o’clock in the evening of August 20, year of our Lord 1902, in the heart of the greatest, wealthiest, and most powerful empire the world has ever seen.” ― Jack London, The People of the Abyss

And Stalinism 101. Terror was wielded against all classes to make sure that nobody got out of line. Though I speculate that it probably started with the peasants/degenerates and killed far more of them than any other group.

So you’re a lawyer or a businessperson or an ex-military officer in Fremont and you hand out a care package or even a $1 bill to someone who’s homeless? You’re under arrest, and you’d better implicate some of your comrades during your interrogation. Nice house and bank account you’ve got there, sweet smart kids too, it would be a shame if anything happened to them.

He wouldn’t want to get his young tech bro hands dirty with Fortran. Surely there are cross-compilers that will translate your mission-critical payments Fortran to JS, maybe with an intermediate Rust and/or TS step. Fortran -> TS -> Rust -> JS, or similar, it would be quite a feat to behold. Never mind testing (that would be “wasteful” and “inefficient”), just push to prod and sit back and watch then chaos unfold, then blame it all on Biden and, I dunno, Bill Gates maybe.

Yes, “Crew Resource Management” (CRM). I’d kinda just assumed, given that the approach isn’t exactly a secret and has well-known benefits, that it was a standard approach in surgery and emergency care. Assumed wrongly. At least pilots have their own lives on the line if they FU on the job. This “surgeon” and the staff all got to go home at the end of their shifts no matter what happened to the patient.