We were always taught if you do anything fancy comment. But of course you'd always tweak it but never the comments..

I hate the 'hard choices' bleating. Making it sound like their the ones who are suffering rather than the defenceless people they're kicking while their down. Despicable self-righteous bullies.

True if the civil servants take the cash out by the bucket load instead of using it to invest. And why do bankers make better 'water experts'? If you were involved in any way in designing this literal shitshow you should hang your head in shame.

What would be really interesting would be if they considered other forms of ownership. For example government loans to enable a worker cooperative would be preferable to subsidies. If anybody could make a go of it, it would be the people who are intimately involved in creating its value.

Ingres IDMS-R DBS etc. In the 40 years I was in the industry it always seemed that everything new was just another layer. Still, it kept the money rolling in I guess.