It’s an untenable situation because its so much bigger than the tech world and open source. FOSS fundamentally works on a communal model: everyone needs lots of software, no one can hope to write it all themselves, so what if we distributed the labor out among the community so that everyone can work on some things important to them and the whole community benefits.
Then, capitalist businesses entered the picture and began using more and more open software as backbone for their enterprises. Government entanglements further complicate the picture, but fundamentally the capitalist mindset is incapable of building or maintaining our current technological base. It isn’t capable of maintaining or building our infrastructure either: almost all of that was built on government subsidies, socialism.
And now that vulture capitalism is the law of the land, everything is falling apart because there’s no more “slack” in the system where people can engage in personal socialism on projects like FLOSS, every bit of our time is being stolen to pad the numbers of capitalists.
This bleeds over into attitude as well. Every entitled user who thinks their personal issue is more important than any other concern is a trump or musk in miniature, believing that the the blowhard bravado of our current government is a model for forcing work to get done rather than a death spiral there’s no pulling out of.
You want FLOSS software that’s good? You want less burden on maintainers? You want a safer, saner, more human-centric technology base? You want a better tech world?
You want FLOSS software that’s good? You want less burden on maintainers? You want a safer, saner, more human-centric technology base? You want a better tech world?
yeah, that misunderstands socialism for new deal era policies, which were inspired by socialism but are not actual socialism. i think he has a point though, we are being overworked and underpaid and can’t pursue our passions anymore.
It’s socialism and it is very much ok when it’s for a corporation/bank/billionaire bailout/handout, and “OH THE COMMUNISM AND SKY IS FALLING AND WE ARE DOOMED AND LIFE IS ABOUT TO End” when it’s something that helps people.
It’s an untenable situation because its so much bigger than the tech world and open source. FOSS fundamentally works on a communal model: everyone needs lots of software, no one can hope to write it all themselves, so what if we distributed the labor out among the community so that everyone can work on some things important to them and the whole community benefits.
Then, capitalist businesses entered the picture and began using more and more open software as backbone for their enterprises. Government entanglements further complicate the picture, but fundamentally the capitalist mindset is incapable of building or maintaining our current technological base. It isn’t capable of maintaining or building our infrastructure either: almost all of that was built on government subsidies, socialism.
And now that vulture capitalism is the law of the land, everything is falling apart because there’s no more “slack” in the system where people can engage in personal socialism on projects like FLOSS, every bit of our time is being stolen to pad the numbers of capitalists.
This bleeds over into attitude as well. Every entitled user who thinks their personal issue is more important than any other concern is a trump or musk in miniature, believing that the the blowhard bravado of our current government is a model for forcing work to get done rather than a death spiral there’s no pulling out of.
You want FLOSS software that’s good? You want less burden on maintainers? You want a safer, saner, more human-centric technology base? You want a better tech world?
Eat. The. Rich.
God damn. I came here to say something, but I don’t think it would’ve been even close to this, let alone better. Thank you.
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Socialism is when the government does stuff, the more it does the more socialist it is, and when it does a whole Lotta stuff, its COMMUNISM
yeah, that misunderstands socialism for new deal era policies, which were inspired by socialism but are not actual socialism. i think he has a point though, we are being overworked and underpaid and can’t pursue our passions anymore.
It’s socialism and it is very much ok when it’s for a corporation/bank/billionaire bailout/handout, and “OH THE COMMUNISM AND SKY IS FALLING AND WE ARE DOOMED AND LIFE IS ABOUT TO End” when it’s something that helps people.