Are we in the worst of all possible worlds?

Good people are constantly being supplanted in favour of the greedy and sociopathic, over and over and over again.

Imagine if Gary Kildall had made the deal with IBM as was supposed to happen, instead of Gates.

http://www.tomrolander.com/GaryKildall/In%20memory%20of%20Gary%20Kildall.htm

Gary Kildall tried to push elegance in software. Imagine sane computing. Imagine if this person had influence over computing that Gates ended up having.

Actually, I can't imagine it, because some other monster would have come along. The demons are everywhere.

The human race is comprised of mostly nasty, selfish monsters. Our being conscious is a mistake and we shouldn't even be here, but that is a topic for another day.

People who try to do good seem to get stopped before they go too far, while the greedy monsters are completely free to run amok.

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Software is meant to be used by people.

``People'' isn't a homogenous demographic, there are different sorts of them and some of them are fucking idiots. The fact that some important and meaningful things are lost on them doesn't necessarily reflect badly on the things themselves.

using sepples as an example of mathematical beauty

I don't think that's a very good example.

every single smug lisp weenie and their ilk can't bear to face it, and prefers comfortable lies about the world being an evil place with no respect for beauty or goodness.

I think it's more that they are upset that most people either have different values than them (their goal is to write beautiful and concise code, my goal is to get my team of indians to get my company's product out the door before the deadline) or are simply idiots (most programmers have exactly as much interest in computing as bricklayers have in engineering and math).