not a recruiter: I have never felt that recruiters pay attention to linkedin references specifically.

You can also make one, add people, and then ask for a few references. "I just finally made a linkedin in 2025 on a lark" is a perfectly cromulent icebreaker/reason to ask.

well, another way to recount it is that google tried and it worked okay but they decided it wasn't moving the needle, so they stopped trying.

TOPEKA, WA - Elderly man considering strongly worded letter to editor about armed intruder ransacking his home "optimistic" about potential for public response. "I think it could really get an important discussion started," he was heard mumbling, under the sound of a glass display case in his living room being smashed. As heavy footsteps approached his bedroom door, he continued, "people need to learn a serious lesson about public responsibility and the rule of law." At time of printing repeated calls to the house, last seen darkened, with an open and only partially hinged door, were unanswered.

My local city runs a water heater rental company. It provides water heaters more or less at cost to residents because we have exceptionally hard water here and they need to be replaced every ten years or so. It's a well run, valuable public program, and its cost is minimal.

The US Digital Service made a number of good web services for the US federal government while it lasted. They didn't close at night.

There are many times where governments do a bad job of things, and times where they do a good job. They're just institutions made of people, but they have no other default orientation. Describing faults in some non-existent service you're just imagining, as though they would obviously happen, is frankly a bizarre thing to do.

May I suggest: consider getting involved in the governance of your world. You could meet the many humans who are already doing so, working to improve it, and learning something. You can actually do that! It might surprise you how much good work is being done.

You might also then be able to help prevent others from implementing your worst dreams, instead of treating them as obvious or foregone conclusions.