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Who do you think makes the internet possible to begin with? Competing entities? Or people working together? I want one currency and one universal language too.
by alexashka 11y ago
Who do you think makes the internet possible to begin with? Competing entities? Or people working together?
I want one currency and one universal language too.
That probably sounds radical to a lot of people but really, look at your life - do you want parents competing to raise you properly or do you want them working together?
Why do we have the same parents our whole lives? Because it works well that way.
Competition as a means of arriving at the best solution to complex problems is an unfortunate artifact that'll be looked upon as barbaric not too long from now.
Working together works much better in my experience.
- pjc50 11y agoI think arguing for the Bolshevik abolition of the family is going to go down even less well on HN than the abolition of Wordpress. Irreconcilable differences of opinion on what the best way to do things are the reason why we can't all just join in one big cooperation; the alternative requires either total stagnation or the squashing of dissent. (See also The Tyranny of Structurelessness)