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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago

The problem is capitalism, not which kernel everything runs. And the reason FOSS isn't universal is also capitalism.

[-] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

It's more complicated to make money producing FOSS, capitalism or not. Lots of reasonable developers would still choose closed source even without capitalism.

[-] hellishharlot@programming.dev 13 points 1 year ago

Making money is a capitalist adjacent idea. The premise that we need money to figure out how to allocate resources is foolish

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I'm still waiting for someone to propose in detail an alternative.

[-] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's the problem. We don't have the requisite technology to build a Star Trek utopia. If only we did…

[-] ShadyGrove@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Well, if everything ran Linux...

[-] vrkr@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The premise that we need money to figure out how to allocate resources is foolish

Money not necessarily, we need to calculate costs (and minimize it) in distributed fashion.

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

And the only reasonably successful way we've found so far for doing so is...money.

[-] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There's a bunch of ways to allocate resources but ideas like money have an advantage of allowing people to choose how they live.

A good example would be that not every person would be satisfied living in an apartment in the city. Some prefer living more rural for any number of reasons. Some want to be inside playing video games and others outside biking on a mountain. Some want to be able to do both. Giving them the ability to choose small apartment in the city or bigger house in the woods is important for happiness.

The biggest issue is the discrepancy of resource allocation between individuals not the method that allocation is done on paper.

[-] cyber_kalashnikov@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The problem is capitalism,

Perfect! Now if we had a way to end it...

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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