What makes it suspicious? It’s a communication protocol.

Ah in this town square metaphor, don’t forget the private company’s CEO has a megaphone and talks over people, and outright kicks them out of the square if you hurt his feelings.

My raise was 100% eaten by taxes.

Then with everything rising, I am now making a couple thousand dollars less than I did two years ago, even with all of those raises.

(feels sad for the new product that finally incorporated blockchain, cloud computing, and IoT and now feeling left in the dust)