If they won't directly compensate you, work it into your goals for the new year. Then "slowly" work on the software. Give management a schedule and give releases prior to the dates given. This way you'll always have extra time to figure out your next goal you'll accomplish.

I only suggest this because I don't imagine you have a lot of upward mobility in your department. I have also had that underwhelming feeling when handing over software and not being compensated. Never again.

I agree about the 13 month calendar. The last month should be 29 days. Leap years the last month should be 30 days. It's fairly easy to remember and there would be no fudging of the days. Plus the computer algorithms would be fairly straight forward.

Surprisingly, there would be a lot of people bitching about not getting 3 paychecks in one month. Interest on loans would be more understandable to the common man.

I am overjoyed there is no more sense of shared purpose. Otherwise, I might have been drafted to go to Iraq or Afghanistan or attack the Libyans from afar. This idea that countries must have a purpose or a goal is ridiculous. You'll end up with a state like China, where talking heads decide what the next goal is and then the people blindly follow. And in following that goal, the path is only the vision of the talking heads. When the US was founded, the philosophers who wrote the Constitution didn't talk about how the US was going to be first in education or dominate another country in GDP. The philosophers spoke about a country where each man would be able to follow his passions with in the law. The 13 colonies fought the war of independence for mutual benefit. It's hard to see the benefit in beating other countries in subjective goals.

Oh shit, now I'm rambling, but I hope you get the point.

"This leads to things like Phillip Morris killing people for profit for millions of years, because they did the cost/benefit analysis and realized that in reality they can get away with human life and suffering costing them many orders of magnitude LESS than they should, all because they have the power."

The smokers are to blame for killing themselves. I don't care if their "addicted" to their drug. It's a choice to smoke. The stuff about businesses polluting, I agree.

Is there another term besides corporate that you could use? Maybe business? Does business not have enough insinuation for you?