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How do you define The Unix Philosophy as applied to a country? Software doesn't come close to the complexity of an entire country so your analogy could possibly

How do you define The Unix Philosophy as applied to a country? Software doesn't come close to the complexity of an entire country so your analogy could possibly be fundamentally mismatched...

sova 10y ago
Yeah clearly it's not a question about how to make a country like an operating system, it's a question about how to use the philosophical advances in the THOUGHT behind unix to structure a "nation" from scratch, should the opportunity ever arise. Play along a little bit, you might be surprised to find that you can dance quite well even if the music is just tea spoons and cups clanking.
Numberwang 10y ago
Well I believe that fundamentally the complexity of a country is to a large extent historical artifacts. How do you think the relations between institutions would be different, how do you think they would perform their functions differently? What would their structures be? Or focus on some specific example -How would voting be different? -How would registering for a licence be different? -How would taxation be different?
- sova 10y ago
  I think with taxation we could also do very cool things: Say your nation taxes at 30%, what if every voter had a subset of that value (say, 12.2%) that they could choose which district or set-of-needs to fund? Like maybe I want my 12.2 to go to education for kids 6mnths-12years, or maybe I want to fund state medicines, and my neighbor and I both pay the base rate that covers necessities like roads and stuff, but he may fund shelters instead of medicine specifically with his 12point2. It could be really wonderful. In effect, people may become more participatory in their own governing systems, and could actually direct funds instead of relying on bill-makers to figure out where to spend monies/resources.

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How do you define The Unix Philosophy as applied to a country? Software doesn't come close to the complexity of an entire country so your analogy could possibly

by arkitaip 10y ago

How do you define The Unix Philosophy as applied to a country? Software doesn't come close to the complexity of an entire country so your analogy could possibly be fundamentally mismatched...

sova 10y ago
Yeah clearly it's not a question about how to make a country like an operating system, it's a question about how to use the philosophical advances in the THOUGHT behind unix to structure a "nation" from scratch, should the opportunity ever arise. Play along a little bit, you might be surprised to find that you can dance quite well even if the music is just tea spoons and cups clanking.
Numberwang 10y ago
Well I believe that fundamentally the complexity of a country is to a large extent historical artifacts. How do you think the relations between institutions would be different, how do you think they would perform their functions differently? What would their structures be? Or focus on some specific example -How would voting be different? -How would registering for a licence be different? -How would taxation be different?
- sova 10y ago
  I think with taxation we could also do very cool things: Say your nation taxes at 30%, what if every voter had a subset of that value (say, 12.2%) that they could choose which district or set-of-needs to fund? Like maybe I want my 12.2 to go to education for kids 6mnths-12years, or maybe I want to fund state medicines, and my neighbor and I both pay the base rate that covers necessities like roads and stuff, but he may fund shelters instead of medicine specifically with his 12point2. It could be really wonderful. In effect, people may become more participatory in their own governing systems, and could actually direct funds instead of relying on bill-makers to figure out where to spend monies/resources.