I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.
@Trevor Flowers The only part that's missing from the UBI equation is finding how to actually raise the money to make basic income workable, especially with the expected fewer people in the workforce.
Which is quite why I find that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaire_… makes more sense, you'd even keep the economic encouragement for people to study/work which politically is likely more acceptable.
That has a number of flaws, but most particularly an insistence on papers.
A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.
It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds.
On the certification part, it's not supposed to be tied only to the academic part, but also experience, otherwise I would throw it all away. (as I have 0 academic certifications and realistically I'm not if sure I'll ever have any)
As for the political part… could be a problem for say Tor Project / Tails developers but the publicly known ones also participate in other projects. That said I'd rather have it work via unions (like unemployment works in some countries) rather than government agencies (like done in recent decades in France for unemployment, which plainly sucks).
The problem with unions, at least here, is that they *also* often have paperwork red tape requirements. So they wouldn't meaningfully differ from government, and in fact might be worse since they often have harsher requirements on recency of employment, certification/license and whatnot. (Needless to say, there's a lot to fix.)
I think the overwhelming majority of people involved in stuff like I2P are pseudonymous, and for good reason since the project feels a fair bit more serious about traffic obfuscation than Tor.
UBI has been tried before and the economy was unaffected, turns out lots of work, particularly in software, would still get done without paying specifically for that work, if the devs can work on it full time knowing they don't have to worry about having food and a roof over their head by the end of the month
since college my dream was to work on FOSS but it never materialized as I had to pay bills somehow. If I had UBI it most certainly would have become a reality as I all I needed is some eggs, ramen and a laptop.
I trully believe UBI would be the biggest positive societal shift since the internet. That extra safety net is just so invaluable for human creativity!
@Individkid Also the question of how many jobs renewables need vs fossil. Low labor costs are part of the appeal. It takes a lot of man-hours during the transition, but once renewable infrastructure is constructed it just doesn't need many workers to maintain. Solar and wind installations are unmanned - they just need an occasional service visit.
@vorsprung The point is they would have choice. Some would choose to make software, some would choose to make art. Both choices are valid. That is what UBI provides, true choice on how you spend your life
@fishidwardrobe more time to learn and practice their craft when they don't have to worry about making rent. Writing code is a lot like writing music, practice makes you better.
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A lot of Free Software programmers do *not* have the academic certifications and so on paper do not have the "professional competency" they actually have. In some cases, due to a variety of issues unrelated to monetary cost, they *cannot* acquire said certification either.
It is also an issue for Libre work on politically inconvenient technologies (though it is equally an issue with pseudonymous authorship of some investigative stuff), such that alternative acknowledgements of specialization/competence might also pose a risk by flagging one as a target for feds.
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in reply to LisPi • • •On the certification part, it's not supposed to be tied only to the academic part, but also experience, otherwise I would throw it all away. (as I have 0 academic certifications and realistically I'm not if sure I'll ever have any)
As for the political part… could be a problem for say Tor Project / Tails developers but the publicly known ones also participate in other projects. That said I'd rather have it work via unions (like unemployment works in some countries) rather than government agencies (like done in recent decades in France for unemployment, which plainly sucks).
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in reply to Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: • • •The problem with unions, at least here, is that they *also* often have paperwork red tape requirements. So they wouldn't meaningfully differ from government, and in fact might be worse since they often have harsher requirements on recency of employment, certification/license and whatnot. (Needless to say, there's a lot to fix.)
I think the overwhelming majority of people involved in stuff like I2P are pseudonymous, and for good reason since the project feels a fair bit more serious about traffic obfuscation than Tor.
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I trully believe UBI would be the biggest positive societal shift since the internet. That extra safety net is just so invaluable for human creativity!
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