"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
It's worse than that, they reconsolidated but BellLabs was shut down in the process. So, they got the same control they previously had except they weren't spending on research. IMO, they should have been prevented from reconsolidating.
Who gets to decide which groups "should be ignored". The pig farmers certainly don't agree. The whole point of competitive districts is that the groups who should be ignored will be eliminated by competition. Your whole premise seems to set up all districts with functional lifetime appointments rather than elections.
I think it needs to be taken in the context of the twitter backlash against the 10x engineer tweet. The tweet was largely interpreted as "10x engineers are brilliant jerks".
People have been writing about toxic environments created by brilliant jerks for years and I think Human Interest is just trying to avoid creating an environment like that.
If that's not how you want to work, that's alright, but casting is as discrimination feels like a stretch.
Someone please correct me if I misunderstand, but it might be more useful to phrase it as, "the speed through time is a function of the speed through space"
I find this comment interesting because my experience is the exact opposite. (I won't bore you or tempt the trolls with details) I don't mean to downplay your experience at all. My working theory is that you just think the way the rails devs do and I think the way the Django devs do.