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On the subject of cultural resignation, I'm totally with you. It's not a good way to go about life. Though I don't think it's required to come away from my comment with that conclusion. There's plenty of space between "things will never be perfect" and "things will never be better". Software can definitely be better, it's just important to not worry too much about perfection - it really is the enemy of the good.

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I am a naively optimistic stoic nihilist that knows humans can do waaay better than we are, at basically everything.

But one can hold both of the opposing views of what the upscussion is talking about in human nature and misanthropy. Good architecture encourages the right decisions. So we can both accept that human nature will "come out" and also strive to help our fellow humans make the best possible decisions in light of that.

Anything else is not being true to ourselves and the situation.

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