Right now it feels like empathy and care, not just for humans, but for anything at all, is taken for weakness and thrown right back in your face. Even though it’s disheartening I refuse to allow it to deter my faith in humanity. I love programming, and each year it feels like I’ve just now started getting good at it. I’m not going to let a bunch of brainwashed token spending addicts convince me I’ll be left behind if I don’t fall in line and do things their way.

Learning and improving and getting better at programming and creating software brings me the most joy out of any hobby. And I don’t want to just be good or great, I want to be amazing, I want to be the best. I don’t want that just for shits and giggles. I want to be able to move mountains and make an impact for a large amount of people. I believe creating free, accessible software is a path for me to make that kind of impact. We should not willingly cede control of our lives to technofascist corporations. We should be undermining their opportunity for a profit margin. We should be attacking any chance they have at controlling the freedoms of anyone. We should be striving to create for the good of all humans instead of just for ourselves. We should raise the bottom line for humanity.