Just working for the government is what radicalized me 🤣 I do good work but I'm very bad at understanding social dynamics. So I was finding problems, creating solutions, plugging leaks in the budget, finding miscalculations that shelved millions in taxpayer money.... And people were acting like they hated me more and more. I am a social idiot so I thought to myself, "I'll just work even harder and do better and then they'll see I do good work and like me!" And instead it all got worse and worse for me. Finally at one point my boss screamed at me, "you're making us look bad!!!!" And it was a real wake up call for me. It's not that the problems aren't seen or can't be solved, it's that the people in charge have too much ego, hubris, and stakes in the mistakes being made. It's not accidental, it's purposeful. So they can keep power and financial position. And there wasn't anything the voters could do about it because the layer this happens on sees the voted politicians as an annoyance and just keep them in the dark as much as possible. Happens from national level down to local level. Creating parallel citadel communities is the only solution I can think of to such a systemic issue so that's my current passion project.