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The problem is that our society has no other viable widespread mechanism to support the many millions of people who do intellectual work, and lots of intellectu
by chefandy 3y ago
The problem is that our society has no other viable widespread mechanism to support the many millions of people who do intellectual work, and lots of intellectual work is really important for our society-- far more important than would make sense to relegate to hobbyists and volunteers. And this is coming from someone who's contributed well over 10k coding hours to FOSS software.
- teddyh 3y ago> The problem is that our society has no other viable widespread mechanism to support Except, of course, UBI.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoWe don't have that. Maybe we should, but we don't.
- chefandy 3y agoYep. Order of operations matters. This isn’t a theoretical “future problem” for a lot of people.