No it does not in agriculture. The toilet is not for bulls, simply because the bulls are already steaks. Farmers keep only a few of them. Just enough to fertilize the females.
I was trying to say they don't seem racist or discriminating to me. They just want to save as much as possible. But they seem rather oblivious to the fact the system is set in a bit demotivating way.
Oracle pays its long-term employees less than newjoiners, that is no news. If you think you can get a raise by switching positions within the company - wrong! You get exactly the same no matter the position. Also nobody in the office got a raise in years (not even the inflation rate). The only option to get some raise is to be promoted, which does not happen very often. I don't think it has anything to do with race/gender.
The 5 apps and their 25 libraries are in fact one entangled monolith. That is what I am talking about. It is only marketed as 5 apps. That has some hundreds external dependencies, of course.
I think that the reason of the argument is that both authors understand the definition of "large repository" very differently.
With 100 engineers a monorepo might seem a good idea. With 500 it becomes nearly impossible to do anything involving a build. Some isolation is needed.
Also from my experience many engineers just don't give a shit about architecture. They create entangled mess, that kind of works for the customer, and go home. Without some enforced isolation it is impossible to maintain it.
Two package managers are a bad idea. They would need to cooperate somehow. Pacman developers probably have heard of Gentoo, but I wouldn't call it "based on Gentoo".