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No, what would be better is creating a VAT against big tech and VC investments so that the public can decide what technology is worth developing. If the VAT am
by shimman 5mo ago
No, what would be better is creating a VAT against big tech and VC investments so that the public can decide what technology is worth developing.
If the VAT amounted to $10,000,000,000 of tax revenue annually (something that is quite easy to do against an industry that has several trillion dollar corporations) that is enough to 100,000 open source projects with $100,000 grants.
This would literally unleash to much economic value that would be truly controlled by the public.
That is the future I want to build towards, anything that gives people more power against corporations and in the software world that means funding open source.
I can't think of a single open source dev that wouldn't mind a $100,000 grant for the likely millions they provide in economic value.