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Or you can do that, proposing a trivial enhancement, and have
1) The maintainer tell you "that isn't the designed behavior" (no kidding it doesn't do that now, that's why I want to enhance it!)
2) It marked it as a duplicate of the last handful of people that wanted similar features
3) The ticket closed
I'm looking at you, jquery-ui
This type of scam is big business in rural Iowa (and I'm sure other areas).
I used to work in rural northwest Iowa. We had a "programmer" (to use it loosely) quit to work for a company who's sole purpose was to abuse this system.
They ran a "phone company" in a small town and then connected a big asterisk box at their local exchange to accept free conference calls. They then installed smaller asterisk boxes in other businesses that were a long-distance call away with for the sole purpose of keeping the lines coming into their conference box 95% full 24x7 with bogus calls from 5-45 minutes long.
Try the Herman Miller Mirra, it's a lower chair in their line but the back structure makes it far superior to the Aeron.
Nope, don't even have to go that far. So long as interest payments as a fraction of tax revenue doesn't increase, debt is sustainable. You can raise tax revenue either directly or by growing the whole economy, so the taxes are the same percentage, but coming out of a larger number.
It's no different than personal finance. If I get a raise and my income goes up by 10% and get a fancier apartment for 5% more, I'm still better off overall because my salary grew at a faster rate than my rent.