The fastest way to ruin a hobby is to make it a side hustle, or worse, your job.
Frame 3 actually is:
“Thanks for your work of love and passion and curiosity, and freely contributed open source software, I like it! With the help of amassed capital power, I’m going to blanket the market until my new company’s name is all anyone can think of when they mention your previously free and fun hobby and are happy to subscribe to my monthly fee and privacy invasion of users which allows me to further monitor the efforts and contributions of others.”
That is why (A)GPL and not MIT/BSD, that is why no CLA.
I don’t understand why so many open source devs just gift their work and time to big corporations by choosing permissive licenses or signing away their contributions via CLA.
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The thing is, in the world we live in it is possible to achieve this without it becoming a work burden, or a worker oppressive machine.
Once the US Supreme Court ruled that companies no longer have any obligations to thier customers, themselves, the environment etc. and only hold fudiciary responsibilities to the shareholders (profit) above all else- that the system reached its final stage that has been grinding down everything.
I see a huge amount of meme postings and negative postings/comments about it, but very, very little posts on how to change the system we live in (the west) besides “burn it all to the ground”…which, frankly, is a shit idea, because we are all in this boat and I’d rather see us all succeed than fail.
But then again what do I know? I’m just a banana.
“burn it all to the ground”…which, frankly, is a shit idea, because we are all in this boat and I’d rather see us all succeed than fail.
Do you think changing economic systems is equivalent to setting it all on fire?
No, but the majority of the “you’re not left enough” crowd disingenuously keeps bringing it up as the only solution, and don’t offer any positive or applicable alternatives.
Thats because it is the only solution, and the “you’re not left enough crowd” understands it is the only solution.
Maybe read Capital volumes 1-3 and then tell me you think “socialism or barbarism” isn’t an objectively(or as close to objective as one can be) correct take.
My friends, I am not saying the system is the best one, I am saying we need to come together and figure out how to make positive changes whole living in it, not wreck the joint Because our children have enough shit to deal with for thier future.
Reforming the system is a dead end, we have to replace if with socialism for the sake of our children.
I don’t buy that and I think we’re better than that
Okay, well, you’re wrong, capitalism is a mathematically unsustainable system.
Well, the first thing to be done in USA is to stop dis BS two party system. It is still better than only one, sure, but a working democracy should give more options and tools to make each individual’s opinion respected.
After that something like an initiative is needed so that a the people can commit changes to the constitution by winning a majority vote in the majority of states and one that counts for all states (changes to constitution have to win both majority votes)
Ranked choice voting, actual majority rules, end filibuster, term limits and make sure no one member of any body should be able to throw a wrench into the works.
I’m not American, but have similar struggles. Is this the kind of thing we can push locally then hope to expand out, or does it really have to come from the top down?
Actually you all probably have more local power than a lot of countries, so lots of opportunity to land and expand
I am, but am able to live outside the US.
If it was me, I would start locally and keep expanding upward. There are some examples already in the US that I’ve seen, where the vitriol is out of campaign because it’s just not feasible when there’s more than 2 dogs in the race.
I personally prefer to start locally and expand upwards. Especially here in switzerland where we value the right to have local laws very highly 😇
❤️exactly!
Bananas are strong together. Anarchist are working toward prefiguration. That is building a future with “no rule” inside current systems. We have to live within the current system, but we can build a better one. Working together maybe we can build a better boat.
Don’t worry, I make sure at least 50% of my hobbies are just consumerism in a trenchcoat. This keeps the other 50% pure.
Oh hey my dad’s in a comic. I love him, but dear lord dad sometimes things that are technically possible to profit from are just things you do for the love of doing them
I’m at the stage of burnout where all my hobbies feel like extra jobs, or at the very least like chores.
Take a vacation from your hobbies, friend. If you’ve got collaborators, just let them know. They’ll understand
Any time I talk about my hobbies, people tell me that I have too much free time on my hands, and/or that I should turn said hobbies into a job/business.
It’s like people are so capitalism-brained that they can’t fathom the idea of someone having a passion for the sake of the passion itself, and not making a commodity out of it.
“if you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life” yeah well nobody will pay me to sit in bed drinking beer all day so get fucked
yeah well nobody will pay me to sit in bed drinking beer all day
just get popular as a “just chatting” dork on twitch. ez clap
“just chatting” and it’s just a stream of me falling asleep because the mornign beer was not a good idea
If I brought my novels to a publisher, I’d have to remove just about everything I wanted to say in them in favor of “nonpolitical” pretenses with a lot of extra pandering, and even then it’d be just for a chance at additional reach with a big cut of each sold book going to the very same corpos that had just sandblasted anything of value I wanted to say in my work.
There are some vaguely lefty publishers that might bite but this will massively restrict your distribution.
Well, I self published already, for better or for worse. If even those vaguely lefty publishers wanted to me to tweak an entire novel trilogy, that’d probably involve massive rewrites too. That makes me wonder what might be left.
Would the vaguely lefty publishers want me to drop the revolutionary war entirely, or remove the pivotal (and namesake) mecha from it?
Oh nice that sounds like a sick book
Joke’s on you capitalism, my employment EULA prohibits me from making outside income!
He better be using another folded sticky note to make those 3d instead of regular tape…
Looks like sticky notes cut into shape to me
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