Coder, you are doing fine, but it is a walled garden!

Tom Smykowski
5 min readJul 17, 2022

I have a saying that doctors create problems only doctors can solve, and programmers that only programmers can solve.

Masters of elitism

It is not a speciality of only these two professions. It goes beyond that. Really almost any person on earth does that. Everyone, who is incapable of solving a problem, reframes it to one, only he can solve.

For example take politicians, and an important problem we face as a civilization. That is: world’s hunger and poverty. Politicians didn’t solve that problem so far, while they have all the means to do so. They however, reframed the problem to the problem of distribution.

They decide whose fruits of work should be taken a way, and who should receive them. It is so widely accepted that everyone got used to the fact it is good. Sure, it is good in a way. But it does not solve the problem. Hunger and poverty exists even today, after the longest age of world’s prosperity.

But they reframed the problem, so that everyone is moderately pleased. As long, as someone don’t become hungry or poor. Surprisingly then, it occurs politicians are not so good at helping, as we thought they were.

And even if they can do something, you have to rely on the government agencies and organisations to…

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Tom Smykowski
Tom Smykowski

Written by Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.