The utter state of programming

Ever feel like you're the only soul at your place of employment who "gets" it? The only one trying to do anything to reverse all of the technical debt, the only one who no longer programs like its 2003, the only one who wants to program like its 2048, the only one who actually gives a damn?

Why does it seem impossible to get everyone else to see the light?

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Yeah, sorry about the morbid suggestion there, I was just feeling a bit happy at the time.
If you say that's what you meant, then I can't correct you. I'll take it as you've said.

But let's talk about technical debt, then. How do you reverse it, if not by coding everything else up from the ground? I'm trying not to throw away everything already done and start over, but I get myself mixed into this web of signal and noise and try to make sense of it. Right now I'm cloning some projects from github and trying to see if I can get them to run on my machine.

I don't want to waste time if I can, and "stealing" others' effort and using it for my purposes seems like the way to go. I only need to understand interfaces, not implementations.