I'm at the Ned Ludd point where I'm viscerally disgusted by people who share 20-years-younger-me's wide-eyed optimism about "the digital revolution" and all that shit How can you not see that the people most empowered by the "digital revolution" are the worst people in the world
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think there is a distinction to be drawn between open technologies that anyone is free to implement, and proprietary technologies where artificial scarcity is enforced through "intellectual property" -- copyrights, patents and other bogus monopolies on ideas.
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Replying to @JulieMontoya20
Lol, no Uber's source code being proprietary has like 0.0001% to do with the great harm it has caused the world I don't actually give a shit about code -- if all the code on the entire planet were FOSS it would reduce the human suffering caused by tech by like one tick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JulieMontoya20
The harm caused by tech IS THE GOOD STUFF It's the power that it gives people It's the widespread instantaneous dissemination of information, the decreased friction in marketplaces allowing global competition, it's the automation replacing the need for human labor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JulieMontoya20
If I wanted to reduce the amount of harm that tech has caused in the most significant way it has caused harm -- replacing human workers -- I would make tech bad I would require all code to be proprietary, obfuscated and maintained by a single team of six aging stupid programmers
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Replacing human workers is not necessarily a bad thing, unless the system is set up only to value humans doing work. Which is still scarcity-based thinking; except with an effective surplus of labour, you can treat *jobs* as the scarce commodity, and unemployment as a bogeyman.
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Yup and I will cease my scarcity based thinking the moment I cease being adversely affected by scarcity
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