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Which project should he work on instead?
by iso-8859-1 9y ago
Which project should he work on instead?
- HugoDaniel 9y agoLinux on the desktop
- linuxps2 9y agoThis is the year, I just know it
- NetOpWibby 9y agoUsername checks out
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoNot everyone is in a position to make the world a better place through their work, but it would be nice if they didn't actively make it worse.
- atomashpolskiy 9y agoI'd say we desperately need new ways to self-organize to work on things that matter. Working for business, especially when governments are weak and regulation is pretty much non-existent, is a road to hell for the humanity
- Kratisto 9y agoI think it's a little unfair to just decide what "worse" is. Every older generation loves to say they like the old ways better. Seems hypocritical as they watch tv while playing on their iPad.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoI would reframe that as "Not everyone is in a position to make the world a better place through their work, so it would be nice if didn't pretend they were"
- altern8tif 9y agoI wish more people would work on ideas that would impact the poorer half of the human race.
- zeveb 9y agoI imagine that getting better food options to millions of people and enabling tens of thousands to start businesses does impact the poorer half of mankind positively. We've seen for decades that the typical Western approach of throwing money at the elites of a poor country really doesn't help improve life for the impoverished; it's when we create opportunities for them that their lives become measurably better. Contra the racists, there's no inherent reason for an African, Indian or Chinese peasant to be worse off than a German. They're not genetically inferior: they just had the bad luck to be born in a developing country. But if we can give those countries the same uptick in prosperity that Europe had from about 1812 to 1914, then approximately a billion people will be raised from poverty to something approximating a decent standard of living. That'd be amazingly impactful.
- gamblor956 9y agoIt will be extremely difficult to replicate European prosperity without replicating the colonial system that made it possible and is largely responsible for the state of the developing world today.
- crispinb 9y agoIf true, just as well. Given we're already so far beyond the living planet's carrying capacity (nearly every ecosystem is already in rapid decline) replicating European 'prosperity' (actually future-theft) would be cataclysmic. Extend-and-pretend 'economics' (ie. 18thC superstition) just pushes all the decisions out to a future that never arrives.
- bogomipz 9y ago>"I imagine that getting better food options to millions of people and enabling tens of thousands to start businesses does impact the poorer half of mankind positively." Better food options? Is there a better food option than something locally grown with sustainable agriculture? How exactly does VC-funded motorcycle and car taxis burning fossil fuels "impact poorer half of mankind positively"? >"We've seen for decades that the typical Western approach of throwing money at the elites of a poor country really doesn't help improve life for the impoverished;" Which has given rise to alternatives in the form of NGOs, PVOs and micro-finance initiatives. Do you really believe that some VC firms on Sand Hill Road is going to help lift the world out of poverty?
- crispinb 9y agoI could hardly know, from reading a few blog posts, enough about the man to say. I can claim that, given his history, the world is pretty much Yegge's oyster, so he's in a position to do a huge variety of worthwhile things. That he doesn't is obviously entirely his business, right up to the point that he makes public declamations combining world-blindness, triviality and self-important puffery in such an appalling way.