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The profit motive is also the source of enshittification.
None of them would be productive. It’s projection.
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I’ve never done anything with a profit incentive in my life
…and it’s becoming a problem. 😭
I honestly struggle to understand people who say stuff like this
Like, do they honestly not have anything productive they would choose to do if they didn’t have anything else taking up all their time? What do they envision they do with themselves?
We’re humans, humans innately get a kick out of building and creating things, that’s the human nature part. When we don’t experience that, it’s usually down to having the energy ground out of us from our current work or die existence.
They understand - they have hobbies too.
What they mean is, THEIR businesses won’t be productive without desperate people to force into labor.
Problem is, no one wants to lay concrete if instead they could be playing violin.
I don’t even think that’s necessarily true. Sure I don’t want to lay concrete all afternoon in the blazing sun just like yesterday. But if I had the opportunity and material and could wait for a nice day, I’d totally redo the side walks around my neighborhood three squares at a time. And then go play the violin (ukulele).
I think you’d be surprised. Lot of people like doing things like that and are more put off by the conditions we ask them to work in.
No one would work fast food or retail, but that might be ok.
Even that would happen.
In the Freedom Town debacle, the Libertarian dreamtm. Where everything was profit -centered. They had a problem with trash because nobody wanted to do that no matter how much they were being paid.
So the town had giant trash heaps everywhere, which attracted bears. And everyone moved or died. The end.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn’t look the same. Looking to pre-capitalist societies you find people still making and selling things. Are they doing it for money? Yes and no. An Ale house for example was literally just Ale being sold out of a person’s house and that person would change on a rotation as it was made and sold by different people. This was for like a community service than a profit based business venture.
And let’s say 95% of people act civilly, but 5% of the population is extremely greedy. How do you limit the greedy from drinking all the ale and not contributing to the community?
Well the example I gave was literally during the time of feudalism so in that society you didn’t. I’m a social sciencentist but I don’t have all the answers as, like you pointed out, bad actors are typically a minority which hijackes the society they are in. I don’t think we need to know everything to make a better world, we should start with what we can. If you or I ever find a definitive answer I hope we share that with everyone we can.
Wdym no one. Like, that’s bascially how ancient civilisation do stuff, no profit, just building.
Actually, that’s wrong.Developed ancient civilizations (the ones that build roads) used money too. And slavery. And i’m not only talking about ancient Rome or Greece. Mesopotamia, Hindus valley… all of them.That’s not ancient enough. Go even way back, where people build for community.
African tribes? But they were small enough, that top-down ruling worked somewhat.
Not that this way of living – our instincts are geared to – is wrong. A modern interpretation is federalism, no? Only that the details of what is ruled on which level are often subotimal and the smallest piece usually too big.
How many concrete pours did ancient civilizations do though?
We’re not talking about “pouring concrete” in a literal way though, right? What i take from OP is people don’t express themselves with hard labour work when they can do it with easier stuff, which is completely wrong, because one, people build big stuff for fun all the time, and two, people can and do actually do both.
Would I be wrong to say this is true for most research too? Seems like a missed opportunity not including that.
I’m with you on this. But if(“true”) makes me want to murder people.
Maybe its just a simple way of turning a feature on and off during development
Yes, like eventually there will be a variable toggle, but for now, we just need it to run until Control+C.
Good eye, looks like that source code image is AI-generated, it looks like no programming language I’ve seen before. It looks closest to a weird hybrid of COBOL and Javascript.
My apologies for unintentionally exposing innocent people to that, I was not aware.
Trust fund kids make even better test group for this
Free clipart man is basically responsible for every single sign in Japan.
Firefighters still charge you.
But not to enrich themselves.
All of these reward you with status among your peers.
Yeah, we all know that WIKIPEDIA EDITORS are the highest of the high in status, so many famous Wikipedia editors such as;
And don’t forget
So much status
You missed.
among their peers
Wikipedia editors have a lot of power to influence the narrative on lots of political topics.
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The ability to perform a task well, possessing a useful/impressive/entertaining skill, or at least being useful to a group has generally rewarded a person with status throughout human history, regardless of motive or incentive. Sometimes, that status is limited to very specific peers, though it can often provide various levels of status in a larger societal sense.
Well you see, Bob…
