What's OSS in this context — open-source software? I'm not seeing business models generating good results for those who can't help themselves; I'm seeing them left increasingly vulnerable to exploitation and violence. We need a workable alternative and we don't have one.
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
Wasn't claiming a societal comparative advantage to libertarian asshattery
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Can't parse this at all, sorry; want to unpack?
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
I see diseases in every direction. Profitable forms only care (and build) for those with dosh. OSS projects follow suit, failing to acknowledge or take a high ground based on user's lived experience
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Oh, well, I wasn't advocating that we should do more things like current OSS projects. I was advocating that we shouldn't trivialize human beings as "customers", because that simplification is the root of many of the problems we face…
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @slightlylate and
…and the problems with markets are not limited to inequality — it's not as if "those with dosh" have access to a secure operating system or a decent browser, for example. As far as I understand it, that's more a "market for lemons" problem?
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
It's a huge issue, and a source of great technical inequity. The assumption that everyone carries a $500+ device does much to embed and exascerbate these biases.
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Replying to @slightlylate @kragen and
I don't blame the React team for anything more than the usual sins of wealth and privilege. Is it grotesque bordering on obscene? Absolutely. Will FB ever do anything more than duck responsibility for pervasively poor results? TROLOLOLOLOL
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I think wealth and privilege are, if not exactly virtues, at least good things that everyone should have more of. The sin is using them thoughtlessly. But we can't expect every hacker to quit their well-paying job and move to a third-world country for decades
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Replying to @bahstgwamt @kragen and
They're relative measures. Everyone should have a higher standard of living. Higher relative weather?

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*"relative wealth"
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