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That sounds almost surreal. Pretty wild how my model of society doesn't account for this.
by dmos62 4mo ago
That sounds almost surreal. Pretty wild how my model of society doesn't account for this.
- FinnLobsien 4mo agoA good way to understand how much we thanklessly rely on some professions, Google pictures of any garbage disposal strike
- dmos62 4mo agoGarbage disposal and oss is an amusing comparison.
- GodelNumbering 4mo agoyes, one of them is paid.
- Ferret7446 4mo agoThere are plenty of devs paid to do FOSS, either as a tech company employee or through patron systems
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- jltsiren 4mo agoThe society is built on informal expectations like that. People assume that things will go on as before, and they will start relying on it. They assume that for every thing they rely on, there is a bureaucrat somewhere responsible for making it happen. But unless you are that bureaucrat yourself, you probably don't need to be aware of the specifics. Many things in the society depend on volunteer work. Open source software is unusual due to the scale of it. In other parts of the society, when many people depend on the work of a few, some corporate or government bureaucrat will usually assume responsibility. But in open source software, the few are often still volunteers without any formal responsibilities.
- Ferret7446 4mo agoAs a non Christian, I feel that Christianity and similar religions did much to counter such harmful innate human tendencies (promoting charity, forgiveness, humility, etc) and the reason why Western societies have been so successful. The trend toward secularism could also explain their recent decline.
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