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There is a kind of half-formed philosophy out there which believes we can get back to some false utopian small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise. It d
by supernova87a 6y ago
There is a kind of half-formed philosophy out there which believes we can get back to some false utopian small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise.
It doesn't exist, and never did. Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now.
I dare to say, if you even actually achieved those fantastical scenarios, the damper on economic and population prosperity would be such that you might not have been conceived to wish for it.
It's a little extreme to let a mobile phone's operating system call for the revamp of our economic systems.
- cat199 6y ago> Learn how to adapt and make the most of the systems that exist now. if this were the attitude, the free software that android is built on wouldn't have existed in the first place...
- crehn 6y agoThey’re mutually exclusive; I’m sure GP meant it in a pragmatic sense.
- anonymou2 6y agoMake the most that the owner of the proprietary OS allows you to. I am very thankful of all the people that have been writing free (as in freedom) software which allows us to have alternatives. I do not know about any small-collective agri-mercantile worker paradise, but I am so happy that I can still run Replicant and use things like Mutt+vim+gpg for email. Free software is now more important than ever.