Software as a profession sucks, a rant.

[Gordon Marx]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Jack <jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I found an unbelievable amount of feeling of being free
> just by paying off my mortgage.  A little piece of freedom
> from having to pay someone else for the right to live
> in 'my house'.

Until you pay off the mortgage, the bank is kindly letting you live in
THEIR house.

> Then the tax bill comes, and I still have to pay someone else to use what I 'own'.

This is because you get services from the government. It's part of
what we call the "social contract".

Yours in reality,
Gordon