I don't understand this. What is this manifesto trying to accomplish? I consider myself a leftist (although somewhat disenchanted these days, but that's anothe

I don't understand this. What is this manifesto trying to accomplish? I consider myself a leftist (although somewhat disenchanted these days, but that's another story). I find it somewhat unjust and illogical that in our world of plenty people still are in want. For example, the USA produces more food than needed to feed everyone, yet people still starve and few have access to healthy affordable food. It's one argument if food really was in 2018 a scarce resource, but since it no longer needs to be, depriving it from people seems unjust to me. Same for clean drinking water, clean air, etc. So I have that stance when it comes to material resources, but open source isn't really like that. The rewards are "reputation" which isn't a necessary need for life like food or water or healthcare is, so I don't see why a redistribution of reputation is necessary from that left perspective. I suppose contributions to F/OSS places nice footnotes on one's resume, but if that's the reason then this idea of post-meritocracy is attacking the problem from the wrong end, which involves the actual material realities of access to education and basic needs suffered by certain people. And, sorry, let's keep it real, if you have enough clout and are placed in such a situation that you can worry about open source in the first place, you are materially better off than the vast majority of people in the US, so I don't see it as that high on the list in terms of priorities social justice honestly. So I don't get what this is for other than it being easier than actually materially improving the lives of disenfranchised people.