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Aral Balkan

I just love that we live in a system where all the free work you do for the common good has absolutely zero value and you’re only deemed successful if what you do makes money.

And then you wonder why you’ve ended up with the Elon Musks of the world.

13 March at 10:26 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
15 comments
Travis F W

@aral yep yep. So...
would you like to plug a system?

13 March at 10:29 | Open on fosstodon.org
chuls

@aral Yes, please. Let us bring softness to the front, real value, rather than money. Let's change the conversations.

13 March at 10:30 | Open on mastodon.world
PR ☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻

@aral “This proposal concerns the management of general #information about accelerators and experiments at #CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed #hypertext system.” — tbl

Released the idea, software and specifications of the WWW for free.

#TBL / #WWW / #Web <w3.org/blog/2024/from-a-humble>

Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal", 12 March 1989

@aral “This proposal concerns the management of general #information about accelerators and experiments at #CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed #hypertext system.” — tbl

Released the idea, software and specifications of the WWW for free.

13 March at 10:40 | Open on ioc.exchange
Captain Steph

@aral since the system only has USB connectors, you can't connect right the first time.

13 March at 10:41 | Open on fosstodon.org
patrislav

@aral I believe there's even a (roughly) inverse proportionality between how much you make in a given job and its "value" to society or the "common good"

13 March at 10:46 | Open on chaos.social
Mark Goody

@aral This reporting of "economic inactivity” made me think similar things. And also made me angry. bbc.co.uk/news/business-685345

13 March at 10:50 | Open on social.lol
PJ Coffey

@aral

A system where if you _don't_ do the "free" work it's because "you only care when you're paid to", not because you need to get money from your emotional labour (which is real labour).

13 March at 10:52 | Open on mastodon.ie
Marge Wu 吴静玫
@aral People deserve so much more, materially and emotionally, than this system allows. A scarcity mentality based in fear is much of the problem.
13 March at 10:55 | Open on ack.nerdfight.online
Snow :debian: :matrix: :xmpp:
Snow :debian: :matrix: :xmpp:

@aral

I totally agree with your ironic statement.💪

13 March at 11:18 | Open on snowfan.masto.host
firefly
Those with money get to leverage the work of others without giving them any of the money. If I were working on a big open source project I wouldn't want the Elongz and other grifters using my work.
13 March at 11:34 | Open on neon.nightbulb.net
Gondor

@aral That'd explain why Art/artists/social work... is (at least politically) seen as "worthless because it cannot be quantified".
#pandemie was showing that to all of us.
It has to be privatised/monetized no matter the social costs or the damage for the society to be "recognized". 😡

13 March at 11:38 | Open on troet.cafe
oli_jens

@aral I was just listening to the latest Factually podcast from @adamconover where this was touched on - journalism is never profitable on its own, there’s always something to the side of it that’s made the money. That has now broken down and that’s why local news all over the world is disappearing and the money they used to make is funneled into Google and Meta.

13 March at 11:49 | Open on hachyderm.io
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