Enumerating123

your ability to solve leetcode problems has absolutely nothing to do with your ability as a computer scientist or software engineer; most of my friends haven't ever used leetcode (or even heard of it?) and have become CS PhD students, CS professsors, technical founders, open source maintainers reaching millions of people, and software engineers at assort big tech cos. The culture surrounding leetcode and gaming tech jobs is really toxic and you shouldn't let yourself get sucked into it.

This take is essentially the "I have nothing to hide" argument except applied to China. Moreover, even if China is not interested in you in particular, it is interested in the executives, politicians, and decision makers that use our telecom infrastructure along with you. And you should care if those people are spied on by the Chinese government, probably more than about yourself being spied on by the US government.

While the US is not perfect and has executed a number of immoral/illegal projects, the world order under the US seems far superior to what a world order under China could be.