Jeff Atwood

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Because I know you yearn for the vast and endless sea, just like we do. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-vast-and-endless-sea/

Please read the first 20%, at least, of this essential book by Natalie Foster. It describes how we arrived at this place in the USA in a way that really opened my eyes. I will also gift you — yes, you, anyone reading this — a copy of the book in any (legal!) format or delivery method you prefer. Just ask. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-guarantee-dispatches-from-the-front-lines-of-america-s-next-economy/20302377

"We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles & organising its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness. prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light & transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses & usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, & pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government & to provide new guards for their future security." https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html