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Post-scarcity economics #15

Closed chadwhitacre closed 5 months ago

chadwhitacre commented 10 months ago

Follow-up to #9.

Open Source is designed for a different world. It presents the first real opportunity in our society to begin to develop a post-scarcity economic model at scale. That likely wants unpacking in a future post.

https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/the-open-source-sustainability-crisis/#whats-wrong-with-hoops

chadwhitacre commented 10 months ago

I think open source is not sustainable because it is intrinsically at odds with the system it lives within. The article mentions it but doesn’t go deeper into that. Our current economic system rewards profit in the short term over wellbeing and long term sustainability.

Unless the incentives change, I don’t think this can improve for services offered freely. “The path lies through platforms” is patching the issue with charity, and I don’t think it will bring real long term change.

The path lies through an overhaul of our economic systems.

https://lobste.rs/s/sm3t1o/open_source_sustainability_crisis#c_hr3zrw

chadwhitacre commented 10 months ago

I have a job that pays the bills and work on OSS in my free time. I've never wanted a penny for any OSS work I've done for 20 years and i'll keep doing it forever.

If your software ends because you can't get paid, whatever. Something else will replace it by someone like me.

OSS is not a business venture, it's a movement that rises above money. Stop with the greed!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/19cofb5/comment/kj1u0ao/

chadwhitacre commented 5 months ago

Too high-flown / abstract. Dropping for now.