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Yes whenever someone says they're going to make the world better I find usually what they mean is they're going to try to get the government to subsidize the things they like and ban the things they don't like.

Before you change the world make sure you have the wisdom to know what to change.

This, so much...

I feel a lot of "change" is just a pendulum swinging from one side to another, without true progress at all.

Even in the microscale: almost every junior programmer introduced to a legacy system seems to be fighting the urge to completely rewrite it, long before understanding it at least in a reasonable level.

If anything you should be scared of people who are skilled, intelligent and greedy. They are obviously the most dangerous ones.

You could at least answer the question.

I practically do everything I can to better it, but close family absolutely comes first before everybody else.

I'm also the last person to force anybody to anything and bettering the world sounds like a lot of forceful actions

Well sounds like you're making the world better on a very local level so that's good.