Why the poor and working class? Increasing benefits on local products maybe will, maybe not, move to salaries. But first necessity goods are not very elastic making that products more expensive.
I've probably been reading too much lately about FOSS developers not being able to find help maintaining packages. But yeah, it's not a helpful comment.
Take decisions :). Customization as a way to make an app better for my personal needs versus me (as a designer) not knowing how the app should be used and shifting the responsibility to the end user.
I had an Amiga 500, I love the computer very much. The problem with these projects is that you end up with a keyboard at an angle that is not ergonomic at all.
We no longer ask candidates to write code. Instead we give them code to review and plenty of time. After that we do a meeting to discuss the changes. Works quite well for us.
With the exception of CMake evolution (now days a defacto standard), package managers (as Conan or vcpkg) or the support for new C++ standards in major compilers (clang, gcc, Visual) ;)