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  • I want to answer this survey, but it’s not the easiest of tasks on mobile.

    No account. I didn’t know that would be enough to edit it, but I don’t think I’d have anything to contribute.

    Probably once a month, if much? It’s hard to find which is the most relevant read/page on any given day/week. Featured articles could be update more frequently, based on current world events. I’m just happy it exists, I’d like to contribute more to that kind of initiative, the positive impact is that it got me thinking about how to contribute.

    I feel it lacks a audio mode. Those articles are really text heavy, if we had a one click download of audio version for podcast I’d be very happy. I’m working on something along these lines I’ll share when it becomes slightly useful.

    I think the tone is great for us, but it may be a barrier for people that have no understanding of our terminology and world view. Some introductory articles could help with the gap, maybe a guide to prolewiki world views, and how to read our content.

    It feels credible, but sometimes I feel it misses the overview of a subject I could get from Wikipedia. It contains only differences, not the full picture, maybe? Do you think it could link to Wikipedia articles to help explain context, where relevant, or is nothing in Wikipedia salvageable? It could contain observations for context on how to read Wikipedia’s linked articles too.

    I appreciate the energy you put in this work, and the results of it!







  • I’m not mocking you, tone is lost on pure text communication, I’m sorry. :)

    When I use sarcasm or mockery you will notice a /s in my comment history.

    I was joking in the sense that it’s unusual to see even people using the term “proletariat”. You acknowledge the proletariat never had the power to grab back in the first place, that there’s been no progress and even loss of rights (and, by extension, degradation of material life conditions).

    This is a similar line of thought that took us in lemmygrad to question a few definitions and dig a bit deeper.

    I greeted you as an equal, and joked about us having multiple accounts to read stuff on the defederated instances too, because we’re people too. Also notice how I was downboated to hell just for mentioning lemmygrad.

    Sorry for disconnex wall of text! All the best!







  • For instance, software development is usually very reliant on a highly trained workforce and has small capital requirements, but it is still the realm of capital accumulation. The same applies to surgeons, the few employed engineers. Whether those serve capital accumulation or not depends mostly on them being in the public or private sector, though in the end in bourgeois countries all industries will be converted to serve that purpose anyway.

    For software development, there is the FOSS based licenses, which are a way to de capitalise the industry, in my view.

    The hard part is that as software engineers we’re not trained on how to sustain ourselves through our work in any other way that isn’t just serving the capital.

    I believe there is space for creating cooperative businesses, disruptive to the capitalists through GPL based technology. I’ve been happy to read about China investing in gpl based processors, the RISCV.