Remind me who ran against Xi in his very democratic last election?

You said “the working class is in control of the state”, and I was looking for some argument to support that. I think Xi is in charge of the state, and I don’t think the working class gets much say in that.

OK but you said public ownership as a part of how “the working class” is in control of the state, and this sounds like not that.

What does “public ownership” mean? They’re not paying dividends to every Chinese citizen, right? I assume you mean “the state”, in which case I’m not seeing your point.

I’m sorry, the working class is in control of the state? I’d love to hear something to back up such a strong statement.

Commutes of 2 hours are unfortunately common in the DC Metro area. It’s too expensive to live near the good jobs…

Not if you want support from the vendor :p

I think many companies don’t actively maintain a large portion of their code base at all. So any amount of work, no matter how small, involves a “project” and “budget” and “approvals” to even assign somebody to the task of upgrading.

Then you have the testing and due diligence from whomever actually uses the thing.