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I don't think you're going to solve corruption perfectly in any system, but isn't that a bit of a red herring? We manage to do this within other fields of ende
by anticorporate 2y ago
I don't think you're going to solve corruption perfectly in any system, but isn't that a bit of a red herring?
We manage to do this within other fields of endeavor, at least in the United States, by using an intermediary. Examples: National Science Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts.
- robertlagrant 2y agoIt's definitely not a red herring. Software is there to do something. Art isn't. If you're spending money on software, it's to do something, and if it's the wrong thing it's a waste of people's money.
- sneak 2y agoRedistributing tax money to economically unproductive (and usually worthless, as evidenced by the fact that people wouldn’t pay for it voluntarily) endeavors is a whole debate that has nothing to do with open source software. Ultimately if people value things, they will buy them. Forcing people to pay for things they don’t want to buy simply because you think it would be good for them is a special kind of tyranny.
- anticorporate 2y ago> Forcing people to pay for things they don’t want to buy simply because you think it would be good for them is a special kind of tyranny. Wait until you learn where the rest of your tax dollars get spent.