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Does everything have to be about money? This is "Hacker" News, not "Monetize Everything" News.
by selfhoster11 6y ago
Does everything have to be about money? This is "Hacker" News, not "Monetize Everything" News.
- RohMin 6y agoHow are we to survive then
- aloisdg 6y agoby switching from a competitive money driven world to a cooperative one.
- Toutouxc 6y agoGreat, when does the spaceship launch?
- aae42 6y agoas if a spaceship launching anywhere would change anything
- lamp987 6y agoCommunism doesn't work.
- mnsc 6y agoCapitalism doesn't work.
- smoe 6y agoMaybe, if we could finally get out of the cold war mindset, we might realize that there are more than two black/white options to run a society.
- selfhoster11 6y agoI agree that communism failed, bo capitalism has failed too where it's not tightly regulated by the government to cull its worst tendencies.
- 0xbadcafebee 6y agoOf course it "works", there's been multiple countries run on it and continue to run on it. What you mean to say is you don't like it.
- msla 6y agoJust to head this off: Sweden isn't Communist or Socialist.
- topkeks 6y agoITT: Americans who think Europe is full of communist countries. NA education!
- lamp987 6y agoSuch as? In which countries did it work?
- jyounker 6y agoThe communist party was pretty successful in helping to overthrow the Portugese dicatorship in the early '70s, but they were also democrats. They're still one of the major political parties in Portugal, and you see ads for the communist party everywhere. The Indian state of Kerala is the most advanced, well run, and successful region of the country. On development indexes it ranks with the poorer regions of the EU. It's also largely a communist state, but once again the communists are democrats.
- asdff 6y agoI forgot all those GNU developers are currently in poverty asking for alms in the street...
- luismedel 6y agoI think you’re reading too far. The comment doesn’t imply that everything it’s about money. It’s only a question about monetizing a library.
- ahepp 6y agoI don't think it's a reply to just that comment. Seems like there are about as many articles on here about mediocre SaaSes as cool technical stuff. Of course, the site was made by a vc, so maybe it really is Monetize Everything News.
- selfhoster11 6y agoWhat I was alluding to is that one of the first comments on this thread was "how do I make money out of this?" That indicates the priorities of the commenter, if nothing else.
- Frost1x 6y agoAll aspects of life in the US seem to be increasingly money focused, driven, or dictated by. It's not just tech but wherever there is more money to be had, there is more focus on money. At some point, I wonder if our social and economic system becomes a close enough proxy to darwinistic survival of the fittest through capital ownership that a large enough portion of the population realize they would do better outside this construct rather than inside our societies and will begin to reject the system at large. Right now we are able to provide stable food, housing, and ERs can't refuse people for medical care but stable housing is in the downturn and Healthcare costs that lead to bankruptcy conditions are on the rise. I feel like we're really testing how low many will go before they reject the system at hand and at what point is that number of people large enough to be critical to the existing system's stability. At some point the effort for comfortable success may become so high people just abandon it entirely.
- davidw 6y agoCertainly not, but it's worth thinking about how developers will get paid to create and maintain useful systems.
- gjvc 6y agoIt most certainly is both.
- collyw 6y agoNot when coronavirus is around. We have voluntarily destroyed lots of economic growth and plunged millions into extreme poverty because of a virus that is not especially bad when compared to historical pandemics.
- richardwhiuk 6y agoIt's `https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/` which is owned by a tech accelerator, where profit/growth/money is the key driver.
- topkeks 6y agoHow do you survive without any money?
- b3kart 6y agoLandlords don't accept GitHub stars as rent payment, unfortunately. Unless they do in the Bay Area...?