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The $39 Trillion Bill: How Corruption Built Big Tech and Why Indie Devs Pay the Price

The $39 Trillion Bill: How Corruption Built Big Tech and Why Indie Devs Pay the Price

via Dev.toTodd Tanner

I build open-source developer tools for a living. My libraries - SpawnDev.BlazorJS , SpawnDev.ILGPU - fill gaps that billion-dollar companies won't. GPU compute in the browser. Full JavaScript interop for .NET. Tools that prove Blazor WebAssembly can be a first-class application platform. Every day I fight upstream against companies with more money, more lobbyists, and more political connections than I will ever have. Not because my code is worse - but because the playing field was never level to begin with. This morning I looked at the U.S. national debt clock and it hit me: the same corruption that built $39 trillion in debt is the same corruption that built the big tech monopolies I fight every day. And we're all paying the bill. The Numbers Don't Lie $39 trillion in national debt. Let that sink in. $7.58 billion added every single day Over $1 trillion per year in interest payments alone - more than the entire national defense budget ~$289,000 in debt per U.S. household In any real

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