Transportation engineering.

While design is performed by a mix of public and private entities, most of the end clients are governments and they could have software developed and made free for use by their consultants.

Close enough. Which is why I think having a “purpose” is bullshit.

I don’t have a meaning currently. The meaning that I was created for stopped being a thing since I was 3.

In this case, private equity isn’t the only villain.

Print journalism has been decimated over the last generation as it has become the expectation that the articles should be free. The money that used to support journalism is mostly gone.

The writer is focusing only in their own experiences, but the industry as a whole can’t support many people who blog as is it is their job.

But you don’t need a fiat currency to operate a capitalist system. You also don’t need a capitalist system to implement a fiat currency.

But you don’t need capitalism for a minority ruling class to treat everyone under their control as a disposable resource.

And to add onto what you’re saying, most countries have a form of licensure for various activities to make sure that ignorance isn’t a valid excuse. Driving is likely the most common license that a person can get, and that requires written and practical tests at minimum.

I know Billy Talent.

I’d tell you, but they’d be American bands you’ve never heard of before.

It is an economic theory that is a useful critique of capitalism.

It is also used as a justification to create dog shit political systems.