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It’s a fantastic idea in principle. We’ve just neglected the most important ingredient: oversight
It’s a fantastic idea in principle. We’ve just neglected the most important ingredient: oversight
As soon as you decide to decentralize your platform it ceases to belong to any particular group.
No.
And that doesn’t make me stupid because there exist times I say yes.
You can’t give UBI to a subset of people. Then it’s not universal anymore.
But if you did give artists a basic income, how much art would they need to produce to qualify? What qualifies as art? The law doesn’t do well with those kinds of questions.
Better to implement true UBI. Give it to everyone, and afford more security to folks who want to focus on art.
There’s people from pretty much every country living in pretty much every other country.
They were joking that the US is not a civilized country.
I don’t think people really know what gas lighting is :p.
Relatedly, whether you understand the term or not, go watch the movie Gaslight where it comes from. Great film.
It’s also great for bug fixes. Write that sucker first and you have an easy way to reproduce the issue and check whether it’s fixed.
The law is BS, no argument there. But Facebook and Google are absolutely destroying news. They’re each operating a rigged market where they are both the broker and the seller. They eat into everyone’s profits to make themselves fabulously rich. The only reason news outlets play the game is because not doing so would be even worse.
Imo the only solution is to regulate the ad markets that they’re both running. Not this dumb link tax.
However in theory the more self sustaining the Foundation is, the less the Corp needs to support it.
Certain events like marathon swimming and triathlon can’t be done in a pool.