I believe voting requires far more responsibility and is much more dangerous than say, owning a firearm. So the voting age should be at least the age that your state lawmakers think is reasonable for owning a firearm. IMO.
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Edit: I was genuinely asking because I had not heard of similar solutions prior to today. But go ahead and keep downvoting me. That'll teach me to engage in honest conversation.
DO WORRY about the loan amount. There ARE cheaper college options. It doesn't matter how much money you'll make "someday", your future self would much rather have $10K in debt than $100K. Here I am, a 17-year-old kid who doesn't know any better being sold on an expensive private college. There are so many things I would do differently if I could.
"But as technology advances and provides us with more advanced software components it devalues and commoditizes what we’re working on and at worst makes us redundant."
These big IT firms sell a premium on top of what the very best US-based development shops would charge, and then outsource it to the cheapest bidder overseas. It's a scam. I don't blame the overseas teams. They are getting paid a fraction of what they should be. So there's probably a lot of junior developers working on this stuff.
Of course, this requires testing and time to hash out. It would be a major mistake to scrap a project in it's final phase of refinement. They should have switched over slowly, department by department, handling and resolving issues along the way. But scrapping the entire project now only means another $1B investment and repeat down the road. Trudeau would join the ranks of the FAA in flushing multi-billion dollar software projects. It's a waste. I don't know about this project, but software engineers died on-the-job working on the FAA's AAS that never launched.
By the way, if anyone is interested in trying out an incredibly productive web framework, I recommend checking out Django. Need an API? The Django Rest Framework.