• Kaea@sh.itjust.works
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    In socialism nobody wants to work so good luck with your YouTube. There is a reason for proprietary software being most popular and often more feature rich. What we need is capitalism + more opensource work from us, regular people. Capitalism + opensource is way to go.

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        If you seriously compare socialism with opensource then I’m sorry for you.

        I’m huge advocate for opensource software and I can even say it’s my life passion and I really know how important the relation between capitalism and opensource is.

        You wouldn’t have react.js without capitalism. You know what is made in react.js? Mastodon

        They could have used different library for js. one made totally by volunteers, but they haven’t. Why? Capitalism and opensource provide reliable products because there is a money factor and it fuels development

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          If you seriously compare socialism with opensource then I’m sorry for you.

          This is how big tech saw free software until quite recently. Microsoft used to call linux communist.

          FOSS basically goes against the concept of private property of software and embraced common ownership of software. Without private property, there is no capitalism. I wouldn’t call FOSS communism or socialism, but there are elements in it.

          You wouldn’t have react.js without capitalism.

          Ok, and what’s your point? If you read Marx, one essential point he claims is that without capitalism, there cannot be socialism.

          They could have used different library for js. one made totally by volunteers, but they haven’t. Why?

          Probably because they saw no use in reinventing the wheel? And why should they?

          It’s as if you told a revolutionary during the French revolution “You used weapons that you looted from the Bastille, weapons that were produced by the king.”. What exactly would be the argument here?

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              When somebody thinks that something like react.js wouldn’t be possible without capitalism, you can only laugh or cry. If you really can’t understand that open source existed long before corps started messing with it, then you’re an utter ignoramus not worth having a discussion with.

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                I don’t think you understand what I have said. React.js would be possible without capitalism. But it is made by Facebook (capitalist company). And it must be a really reliable choice if Facebook and Mastodon decided to use it

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                  The internet itself exists despite capitalism, not because of it. It was a public research project.

                  See, we can both cherry pick.

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                  I’m not sure what’s so special about react.js being made by a capitalist company. Saying that Mastodon uses a popular library that happened to come out from a commercial company is some kind of gotcha is frankly incoherent.

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      In socialism nobody wants to work so good luck with your YouTube

      They said, on a decentralized, free and open source platform, developed by socialists.

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      Nobody? Look to be honest there are some lazy people that dont want to work but most of us will be happy to work in a socialist economy where we the workers get compensated fairly. Capitalism and open source dont go hand by hand. People is literally creating all of this amazing products for free!! Workinf for the community thats what socialism is. And also the proprietary software is more “popular” because big companies just take open source and make it proprietary then they said they created just look at Apple and RedHat.

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        huge part of opensource is funded and developed by capitalistic companies. Take Linux for example.

        And imagine if you wanted to open your own coffee shop. Where would you get a place for it? From the state probably. But what if they decide that there is no need for new coffee shop? You would have problem. In capitalism on the other hand you have your free will and as long as you have money you can open your coffee shop anytime anywhere. I know it’s not really as easy to make money but if capitalism isn’t broken by stupid regulations and other nonsense it really can work, allowing you to take cheap loans and start your own businesses.

        I live in a post communist country and trust me I know how shitty socialism is

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          I understand your point on the coffee shop in that you are right. Thats not exactly how capitalism works , if you open a coffee shop and become very profitable then a big company comes in putting out of business forcing you to work for them or close your place. Capitalism is brutal against small businesses. I totally support small business , that’s why I believe that people should have more power not corporations.

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            Free market is a democracy. That’s awesome you support small business and if more people were doing the same thing I can guarantee that big corporations wouldn’t be a problem.

            Another really important factor are regulations. Capitalism right now is way to regulated which makes it really difficult for small businesses to exist. On the other hand big corporations are not regulated enough tho.

            We should work on existing system, try to improve it rather than change it to totally different.

            Also if you wanted to make a switch to socialism you would have to rob a lot of people from their private property

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              Your conflicting points on regulation show that you don’t actually understand the problems with capitalism.

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          My problem with Capitalism is the profit over anything. The environment , workers , resources , quality , control over the things you bought. There are so many examples where corporations abuse their power.

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          Not from the state. From the community. And the community would be happy for more nice stuff