In my experience, juniors are absolutely terrified of asking any sort of question at all during a meeting. Senior engineers are far more likely to ask interesting, useful questions.

We hire juniors so that we can offload easy but time-consuming work on them while we focus on more important or more difficult problems. We also expect that juniors will eventually gain the skills to solve the more difficult problems as a result of the experience they gain performing the easy tasks.

If we stop hiring juniors now, then we won't have any good senior engineers in 5-10 years.

It wouldn't be newsworthy if we could trust our representatives not give extra weight to the opinions of the people who yell the loudest.

Sorry to ruin your mudslinging, but if you read the second sentence of the linked study, you'll see the American voters' choice of president has nothing to do with this:

> Leave rates are lower in the life sciences and higher in AI and quantum science but overall have been stable for decades

Capital gains are risky to generate. Many investments completely fail and when that happens, investors get very little tax relief.

If you increase capital gains tax, the more risky ideas will no longer be viable investment vehicles even though some of them would have been successful. Across the entire economy, the net effect will be less innovation, stagnation, and loss of power relative to foreign countries.

Tax rates are carefully tuned to maximize tax revenue without unduly disincentivizing production. To change them purely based on vibes would be catastrophically stupid.

Please don't vote.

As the Democrats reminded us regularly back when they had total control of social media, freedom of speech as a legal principle only applies to government actions.