tehWeeb

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by tehWeeb 5y ago
Providing busy work for people that to prop up Amazon’s selling boat loads of knock off garbage. Amazing. Surely because “that’s how it worked in the past” isn’t the only option for social organization? Why not stop believing in Bezos and s
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by tehWeeb 5y ago
That’s the fundamental problem with our culture generally. The closer (figuratively speaking) to the big money and political power someone is the more comfortable they are. And we all want to believe it’s a meritocracy. We’re just temporari
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
I’m not disputing the value of collective effort. I’m disputing our implementation that favors minority capture of collective effort. Why do I need to be a “company”? We already have a system of collective effort called “government”. Why an
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
This is a context sensitive point. We’ve seen government be far more efficient and successful at “the fundamentals” than privatization. Postal service, Medicare/caid, Social Security all financially stable, and logistically competent u
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
Why must the masses be tethered to a monopolized ephemeral value store? None of us owe servitude to old debts, contracts, wives tales, sonnets, limericks, hymns, poems, stories. When the world changes it does so because society decides ther
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
Why not let people employ each other where they are instead of importing grandpa’s beliefs about how money is produced? It’s the workers doing that produce the real value, not a rich person holding capital they’ll only spend on us if we cap
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
The majority of his reviews are “average schmucks”. Would they know if he’s wrong?
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
Stop optimizing for interoperability then. Write your own operating system specific to hardware. It’s either have the monolith for all or make it a black box so you’re special. Personally I’d rather the resources be made available to all an
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by tehWeeb 6y ago
So what your saying is Facebook is a grocery store checkout? Glad I deleted mine in 2010.