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Anyone complaining about libre software's ability to pay them is in the wrong part of the culture. Paying someone for labor is a capitalist thing and completely
by zlg_codes 3y ago
Anyone complaining about libre software's ability to pay them is in the wrong part of the culture. Paying someone for labor is a capitalist thing and completely beside the point.
Human societies are deliberately designed to disincentivize volunteering or doing anything without getting profiting. These cultures promote the idea that people are only worth what's in their bank account.
So why should people start paying money for things when it's the fault of the developers for choosing to give away their time and work?
I write that as someone who has FOSS projects. If you want to be paid, don't write code or deliver support until you get the paycheck.
- manonthewall 3y agoHumans aren't really built for communism on a large scale either. We are tribal, capitalism gets around that with incentive and greedy individual reward for doing something that generates social improvement at scale (nation-state) level--trade, commerce, interaction, communication. Communism, Marxism will never provide that. You either have to use the carrot (capitalism) or the stick (despotism) at scale to get results. Communism (real communism) fails beyond a few hundred (may only tens) of souls, again we didn't evolve for that,
- zlg_codes 3y agoThere are more than two economic systems, and none of them are natural or aligned with humanity's nature. That's something capitalists tell themselves to feel better about the level of exploitation needed to create a 1% class. So, is exploitation and lying and theft part of our nature? Capitalism only rewards sociopathic behavior. It cannot be prosocial.