If you don't have experience in building things, why not just jump on a stabilised project and build something smaller there? Reflect which free software you use the most or find more interesting, and then check how you can contribute.
1 - "cumulative number of layoffs in past two months alone is going to hit 1 million employees" The state itself created this situation with the inflation since the end of Bretton Woods (specially the inflation during 2020-2021). If you give booze to an alcoholic he will get drunk and afterwards he will have a hangover.
2 - "Shouldn't the government intervene to prevent social crisis?" - Despite warning from people like Hayke and Mises, people tried to do all sorts of state-controlled economies (Germany, USSR, modern USA, etc). It didn't work. Better to drink lots of water, take a rest, and not get drunk next time.
It sounds like someone who only had bad relationships and then proceeds to say that all men/women are trash and go M/WGTWO. The world is very big and each one of us can only experience first-hand a tiny part of it.
As other suggested, to understand the roots of Agile, I suggested looking at the Manifesto itself. Additionally, I suggest looking what people like Bob Martin, Martin Fowley, Allen Houb, Kent Beck, and Dave Farley are saying.
For reports on teams' performance, I suggest looking at the DORA's report. There thousand of teams have shown they experience in the last ten years. Additionally, if you want to some academic researches, going to Google Scholar and searching for "Systematic Review PUT_HERE_ONE_AGILE_PRACTICE" generally yields good results.
Be happy.
As a C programmer, when I first searched for "C only unit testing libraries" or "how to import a non-standard C library", I had to dig deeper in weird, not-straigforward, guides bad-written, Github repo and old blog posts.
In JS, you basically have standard code that you can copy and paste in a Makefile to make things automatically.
I've installed Artix (Arch based) two years ago in a 4 years old laptop. Just had to install a network program, because I didn't want to configure wifi on the terminal. Everything else, since then... No yay -Syyu has caused any issues.
Additionally, you have to consider that macOS and Linux have different purposes. The later is meant to be used to perform computational work. The former is meant to spy on you. Naturally people who want to spy on you will work very hard for you to not have any barriers - whereas Linux people are more focused on empowering you to make more computational work.
Taxes are theft (always). Many people share it explicitly. 99.99% of the people believe it somehow. But when you take it to its final conclusions, specially after touching something in particular, most people get super defensive and try every time of logical contortions to find somewhere when coercively removing property is ethically valid.
If you care about the liberty of your users and ethics, you should release the all code as free software.
Information is not property.
You can create your business around service providing rather than using state legislation to coerce people to not reproduce and alter information they know.
Printing money is a mechanism aimed at increasing the wealth of the friends of the King, aka the people who receive the new money earlier; bankers, big companies, high-level politicians, etc. This is called Cantillon Effect.
In practical terms, printing money is a tax: Inflationary tax. It transfers wealth from the people who receive the new money last to the people who receive the money first.
Therefore, the question itself doesn't make much sense, because money printing is a (more subtle) form of tax.