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Only planet known to support life in the entire universe and all of existence.
Let’s have spreadsheets and taxes and shit.
Spreadsheets were needed for distribution of stored grain to start.
Taxes were used to make it easier to manage soldiers. It was easier to give them coin instead of managing food and stuff for an army.
If we'd stay away from agriculture, all this could've been prevented.
Nah, spreadsheets are neat. And we need to tax the rich. Let's maybe do away with AI data centers instead.
Maybe spreadsheets are some kind of inevitable entity that has transcended from its physical form. The consequence of existence is spreadsheets. It's a virus that has infected reality, and every part of it pursues the spreadsheet. It's why we haven't met any aliens, once a locality creates spreadsheets, then there is no stable higher order to achieve, without a directive, the underlying drives that built the structures to support the development of spreadsheets become vestigial, and the civilization eventually collapses.
And I thought it was the brain worms from the Tigris
Your inability to understand the importance of each of those doesn't lend credibility to your disdain of them.
You for real dude?
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized and functional society. And spreadsheets are just plain cool. I really don't get people who hate spreadsheets. It is literally the best way to organize information.
The disdain for spreadsheets comes from people who don't understand data organization, or people who do.
Tabular data? Good.
Schemaless? Unstructured? Probably maintained by eleventy-four random sales people and an account? Being given to me like it's a gift and expecting me to just magic it into some reporting system? On a recurring basis? No. Please God no.
I can be trusted to use a spreadsheet for my things that I don't share. Other people need to use something that will yell at them when they give it malformed gibberish.
Oh, and executable logic doesn't belong in the same context as data. That shit needs to be able to be told apart from the data.
Spreadsheets are cool. Where they fall apart they fall apart spectacularly from people insisting on using them as an alternative to a database solution, in my experience. It doesn’t generally matter for normal user centric use cases but I’ve also had to perform a post bankruptcy audit on more than one company that trying to over leverage spreadsheets of duplicate, inconsistent, over saturated, and unreliable data was at the very least a significant contributing factor for the doors being shut.
Over ten contract managers all with their own version of a spreadsheet that tracks reportable items for their contracts and gets rolled up to a master spreadsheet via formulas that financial business decisions gets made from is the first immediate example that comes to mind.
People hate standardized spreadsheets but holy crap businesses need to have them for important things
And let's not forget shit! Without shit we'd not have that ancient Sumerian grain! Shit. It's what plants crave!
Where do you think the infrastructure for society comes from dude? Organization and proper funding enables all the things you like and keeps you from being left in the middle of the wilderness to fend for yourself.