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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 154 points 2 months ago

Anti-capitalist regulations, I imagine.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Anti monopoly and regulations against anti competitive practices are cornerstones of capitalism ensuring free and fair competition.
So no, what we need is a return back to when these practices weren't allowed, away from allowing these things more than ever as we do now.
It's easy to see Russia has become an oligarchy, why can't we see it's happening to us too?
But we can't dismantle capitalism altogether, without creating an even bigger monopoly problem, the monopoly being corrupt governments like the soviet union and their 5 year plan economy, that very obviously wasn't a very good concept.

Maybe that's what you meant, I'd just not call it anti-capitalism, when regulations are for the purpose of making capitalism work better.
So just "regulation" is better.

[-] coolmojo@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago
[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Repubtard: HEY THAT'S SOCIALISM!!!

Except Scandinavians have more freedom, and better free market than USA.

Repubtard: BUT IT'S SOCIALISM!!!

Ehrm, they also have better freedom of speech.

Repubtard: WHAT? ARE YOU A FUCKING COMMIE?

Actually they also rank way higher on democracy.

Repubtard: WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?

I don't, but wouldn't it be nice if everybody had healthcare, free education and social security so you didn't have to fear to starve if you got ill and lost yopur job?

Repubtard: HEY THAT'S SOCIALISM!!!

....

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Ugh, my elderly neighbor was going on about how Harris was going to take away this and that, most of which I’d never heard her say or even read about her plans doing, and I said, “where did you hear that? It was Fox News wasn’t it?” He replied with, “well, what news do you watch?” I said, “it sure isn’t Fox where they lie constantly. Harris hasn’t said any of that crap … you need to get your news from multiple sources.”

We’d be a heck of a lot better off if the news agencies were held accountable for telling lies and making up stories. Yeah, I know it’s a fine line but it’s one I’m willing to walk at this point.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We’d be a heck of a lot better off if the news agencies were held accountable for telling lies

Yes, other countries have that, it's called responsible journalism.
You can't just parrot some source, and claim it's reporting. You need to check your sources.
When they help spread lies, they are part of the problem.

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[-] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 2 months ago

All power to the users. And I do mean ALL. Complete control over cellular modems for one. Control over every little bit of hardware in the consumers hands.

That includes warranty promises, that includes schematics, source code for firmware, everything. For all current, past and future devices.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago
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[-] Plopp@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[-] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

I am aware of this narrative. I don't agree.

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[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

Once capitalism is dead.

Technology is great, it's just naturally being used to exploit.

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[-] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Taking patent, trademark, and copyright laws to what they were in, say, 1790, might be a good start.

Regard today's billionaires with the same contempt that one does of criminals.

Wait at least 5 years before buying a new computer.

Don't pay by credit card.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Don't pay by credit card.

This is bad advice for anyone with good credit and spending habits. A credit card with rewards is just free money if you're responsible with it. I haven't paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Yep, the rich are rich because they borrow other peoples money. 0% free interest lines are about the best discount you can get on anything. I get to make the interest while you hold the loan? Sign me up! Siri, remind me in 11 months to pay off the X loan.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.

We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

And more than a couple operating systems. We get a lot of horrifyingly bad compatibility issues from Apple, and to a lesser degree, Google.

[-] Giooschi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

If people stopped using tech to exploit people they would stop feeling exploited by it

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago

I'll be optimistic about technology when the last techbro is strangled with the entrails of the last angel investor

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 34 points 2 months ago

The use of open, decentralized platforms such as the fediverse is one small step in the right direction at least.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago

FOSS / fediverse is really the only tech stuff that isn't massively disappointing as of late.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Raze Silicon Valley to the ground and start over?

[-] DMBFFF@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No: the bad guys will build another one.

However if 250 million Americans each spent 400 hours less on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in the next 12 months, the shareholders might have the heads of many members of those corporate boards on pikes.

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[-] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

Break up the mega corps. Enact user privacy-by-default laws. Market dominance via "free product" followed up by bait and switch tactics should be outlawed.

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[-] Baggie@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 months ago

Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.

I feel like lately we've hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that's created because it can be, but not because it's needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.

We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn't have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I'm excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that's boring as shit.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

The tech sector is right now just running in hype and jumping from one hype to the next. It's a race to keep that investors throwing money at them with providing new targets to keep investors from realizing the stuff isn't that useful.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Repairable technology with encouragement to repair things that break by designing them to be fixable.

Open source technologies becoming the rule, rather than the exception (this is already the case in some ways, but I truly mean EVERYTHING).

Open Standards that make interoperability easier by removing walled gardens (iMessage, G-Sync, etc).

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago
[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

I’m a developer posting on Lemmy so maybe take this with a huge grain of salt but I think we need to focus less on STEM/finance and more on humanities education. Definitely in the United States but probably most of the world considering India and China focus on tech too.

When I was learning to code (in the 90’s and 2000’s unless you count a 9 year old making BASIC do loops), my mentors basically all had majored in something besides computer science because there wasn’t necessarily even a computer science major available if your college didn’t have “Tech” in the name. It was a lot of hippies who spent their weekends making pottery and got into IT or software development almost by accident; it was a job to fund their non-lucrative hobby or passion.

Basically, we lost something when being a programmer became a goal and not a way to reach some other goal. I’m not sure we can return to a time when it was tinkerers and hobbyists coming to the field with different backgrounds but more creatives should learn to code and more coders should be forced to make art.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Get rid of the billionaire tech-lords. The ones that create the only new tech we’re allowed to have: fees, ads, and enshittification.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago

Uh, NOT put surveillance and extremely questionable AI into everything? I don’t need my toilet tweeting how healthy I am

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

We cannot even play music from a device without needing some sort of patent license, usually paid by the hardware vendor.

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[-] snaggen@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago

Producing products that the users wants, and that solves tje users real problems. And not trying to make products as addictive as possible, to harvest as much user data as possible to sell.

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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

Decomodify software. Refuse to respect copyright laws for software, or mandate that all software must be GPL or an equivalent restrictive license.

Make it so that all government software must be GPL, that would remove an enormous install base from corporate entities. Certain EU countries are already doing this.

If you are a public institution of any kind, you should not be using corporate, proprietary software, no exceptions.

Closed source software and hardware is largely what allowed massive corpos to take over the software and hardware scene, and it's what creates the incentive for silicon valley tech bros to create new technology solely in the hopes of being acquired for hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars by some massive megacorp.

Corpos and private equity scumbags wouldn't be interested in acquiring these companies if they knew all the code and technology was under a GPL-like license, and anybody could take that tech, modify it, redistribute it, fork it, rebrand it, etc.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I, for one, have become a lot more optimist about Tech ever since I've replaced the closed solutions that deny me control from corporations looking to squeeze every last cent of value from me - from smartphone OSes to TV Boxes - with open source solutions were it's me who holds the keys.

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[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 2 months ago

"AI will make all of your work obsolete, there's nothing we can do about it. Shame..."

I'm fine with losing my job, it's tedious anyway. I'm not with losing my income though. Let automation and programs do the work and share the fruit of their labor to the people. Get rid of CEOs.

Then we can talk about optimism.

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[-] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Open source.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Automate terra forming against climate change. I want big machines and swarms of drones doing 24/7 regreening and planting forests in the desert.

[-] karashta@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago

When I see technology actively making the world consistently better rather than constantly trashing the ecosystem that literally keeps us alive, I'll have optimism about it.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Well first we kill all they ~~lawyers~~ Investment Bankers.

Then all the lawyers.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

Opensource (specifically Libre)

Worker and community cooperatives.

Right to repair.

Public money, public goods.

Privacy by default.

Decentralization > Federation > Disconnected > Centralized

Treating addiction as a disease and people intentionally seeking to exploit it at a mass scale should be charged for harm.

Organizations should be held liable for user data exposed to malicious actors both intentionally and through neglect of security.

[-] AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Anarcho-transhumanism, or ig more open source innovations unsullied by the profit motive would-be nice.

[-] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Get rot economists out of tech companies and return to private ownership.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I ditched my smartphone spring of 2023. Still use it on WiFi at home, but every time I leave the house, I only carry a fliphone.

Every time a stranger asks me about it, they say something like “I wish I could ditch my smartphone.” Like I get it. It’s not easy. I can’t even go to a baseball game unless my wife has our tickets on her phone. Paying for parking sometimes requires an app.

Yet apparently everyone hates this thing that they are now required to carry around.

How did we get here?

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