I realized how dystopian the tech workforce sector in India was in my first job. I was supposed to be building assets for a game but the company outsourced all of that to a company in India that had hundreds of employees in a giant warehouse modelling all day. My job then became just fixing the problems in the models because most of the workers were not well trained or experienced. If the model had too many issues and was going to take too long my boss wanted me to tell him so he could reject it but the first time I did so he immediately got on the phone to India and had the worker fired. I did not last long there.

The other day I found myself looking for a free word and spreadsheet editor for my phone when the old one stopped working. It took hours to find one that worked which wasn't filled with ads. It is absurd how something so basic and fundamental spawns thousands of versions just because people are looking to cash in. I think of how much human energy and thought is wasted recreating the same stuff over and over when we could all just have a free, open source version and spend that time on more important things.