So by 'managers' (the good ones that you have) you mean architects that can make technical decisions for you as it would not work any other way.
Also there are plenty of situations in which this is not what is better for the project as usually having a prima donna in a project means more work for some so that you can avoid meetings etc. There some situations where that is optimal but there are more where it is not.

Yes and people in Switzerland are extremely unhappy and will revolt any minute.
Oh wait they actually have and use direct democracy as no other nation on earth does - that is they get asked and they answer the important questions on how their communities and federation are to work. Socialism or not - they are closer to an ideal of democracy than US ever were.
A side question: if citizens of a country (majority of them) chose to become socialism (whatever that is) and stay happy with the choice they have made - does this mandate 'liberating' them and using nation state building measures US invasion of Iraq style?

The problem is with manpower. Manpower needed to use the 5$ wrench on this many suspects may malfunction - some of those obliged to handle the wrenches will inevitable revolt which may not only cost more than 5billion super computer but also remove the masters of the universe from their warm positions.

I think you exaggerated sightly with this:

I mean bureaucrats of EU are senile and corrupt but they still have not stumbled on ISIS.

Oh man that would hurt!

If you have a first hand experience of what doctors do then you are a doctor yourself and have skewed perception of that trade. If you are not then you just do not know much about it. It may be a trade but it is a skilled trade and not much software can replace that yet. As with many other things some manual highly skilled work is needed and can be augmented by a lots of automation that could (in theory) slash a huge part of your bill.
As for truly innovative coders - by themselves they cannot do much still, especially that coding by itself is just part of the whole development process.
As for your claim on doctors and teachers pay - I googled a bit because I grew curious. There was a report by this asshat in white house that there are some places where these salaries are on par but there is no report apparently confirming that. See here for reference.
I can see where your ignorance is taken from - I medicate myself and my kids as much as I can and that is much more than any of my neighbuors and colleagues would trust themselves yet as soon as symptoms reach levels I cannot be sure what they indicate I go to a doctor if only to be told to take rest and wait till the sick body cures itself (supported by checks on symptoms that I cannot verify myself like: blood tests, how my throat looks like and other things that I have no clue about). Doctors have as much difficult work as troubleshooters of complex systems that have to judge where fault is on basis of very limited and often confusing information. I can hardly see this being replaced by machines any day soon albeit the automation of some of the tasks can be of great help especially as the knowledge well is so deep today that pulling basket from it maybe beyond reach of a normal human without an intelligent mechanical helpers.
Looking at this then I must conclude that your post is just a nice trolling attempt. Or do you happen to have data confirming your view point? Do not worry if it is long as long as it is well structured.

Basic course is, I think, not something that one could expect to be interesting for a /.er (ones that would need basic course, and there are many, would have to start with reading comprehension and basic maths first possibly augmented with basic philosophy). There are other courses and if one looks for entertainment like physics content I would look for something like this interview - it is interesting, not to deep for an afternoon after work and not too easy for a curious mind.

This is good enough reason to take a week off and watch all of the BBT seasons - I am sure the answer is somewhere there.

I do not see a massive contradiction. Artists were always in search for a sponsor. I work for the money too. I like when it makes fun to but if it does not I still do it to pay for the bills and few times in my life I was proud of what I (together with some other slaves like me) achieved. Great artist can make huge amounts of money and produce artwork that are of great value to many people - what is wrong with that? OTOH the majority, the mass will produce mediocre stuff that if they are lucky make them famous for 5seconds. even this will surely be of some nostalgic value for guys few decades away sifting trough mountains of crap that our era produced and for reasons unknown to anybody saved.

The solutions are known more or less, at least to people that want to know. The problem are people that only look at bottom line and at things required of business by law. Maybe it works some other way - I see the odds for it to work are just against it unless somebody makes the cost of such actions necessary. I may be mistaken tho.

These are not 90ties anymore - go fix it or get bust. This is too important an issue to be left for ignorant to decide on basis of their own cost/benefit calculation especially as client's well being is not part of this calculation. Seems like a nice place for legislature to ask some tech savvy guys to specify what is absolutely needed for a regulation in an area. OC this is red tape and some such but I guess complex societal structures require appropriate solutions and isolation of certain part of your systems is not even that complex - neither to do nor to understand. It is cost of doing business.

The cars have to have (among other things) working brakes, lights etc. Your car does not have those then it usually is not allowed on the public road. I think software security or rather IT related criminality grew up in importance so much as to mandate legal requirement on businesses to for instance isolate particular parts of your system from other parts of your system. Retail or not if they have to know any details of your financial well being they must be able to be trusted to know such details. The only way to deal with general public ignorance on matters that count as important for well being of general public is by laws and law enforcement.
OC businesses will go cheap if they can - the dedicated device is not cheap thus it will be replaced by generic one where everybody can do whatever they want to. A customer cannot be even expected to know status of security in a shop or even to know the difference between different pieces of intelligent HW in the shop. One cannot expect the owner to know that either - they follow the bottom line and law. If one (bottom line) is not clearly and directly indicating them not to do things then the other has to.

That is exaggerated. Software development still pays well. It does not pay as well as it did, not for anybody that has enough ability as it used to be say 30ya but still. The problem that is there for sure is that this ability being mostly in our heads means one can hire such head elsewhere as long as communication is possible. This makes for much intense global competition than it used to. Plus the automation of 'a plumber' is still decades off and automation of your skill is maybe a year or two ahead of you. There are also other factors. 'Plumber' jobs flow steadily in any big enough population center. Software jobs tend to move from one center of population to another much easier than anything else - this makes it difficult for all but stars among us to have a normal family life.
I would still make the same choice at the end of my university. I would however made some other career choice along the way involving investment in own managing capabilities and better choice of procreation partner. It is too late now so I have to live with what I have. If my kids ever want to be software monkeys - so be it. I will be there I hope to support them in whatever problems they encounter. Good plumber is possibly better than good software developer. This said good lawyer is maybe better than good plumber? One thing is certain - the way our societies go a massive change is under way. Wealth is being redistributed again and google - that is somehow related to the subject of these threads is doing part of redistributing. A task for you - do you think it is distributing it within your own local society or it helps the flow in one direction? It is not only google - many platforms graze everywhere and cash in in cayman islands. But that is another story.

As for limited social interaction in software jobs - in most of the projects I worked for, the limited social interaction was a reason why they were over budget, over schedule and wobbling on quality.
The only thing worse that limited social interaction in a software project is too much BS-ing sessions called also meetings that nobody prepares for so that they take hours and do not even bring a relief that a coursing session at the coffee machine brings.

or if they managed to plant that is to find some traces of illegal mental state altering substances.