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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoFOSS has no taxes, people support the projects they like on their own volition, this ensures that the money goes to where it’s supposed to instead of bombing foreign countries or oppressing local communities. I see no reason why this system couldn’t scale.
I never said that there should be no taxes, but I’m also not going to pretend that there isn’t a degree of duress, coercion, extoextortion, non-consent which I consider fundamentally evil, perhaps a necessary one but evil nonetheless and I think it should be minimised.
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FOSS is not a civilization. How did you read ‘civilization’ and get ‘software’ out of it? Do you think I was talking about the game?
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I thought that was a rhetorical question so I answered to what I thought was the spirit of it: An example of a functional system voluntarily supported by the community.
To answare your unrhetorical question: No. I can’t think of a tax free civilization, but if I asked you 150 years ago to give me an example of a functional civilization where men and women had equal rights and people weren’t discriminated against based on their race or sexual orientation or of functional space faring civilization you probably couldn’t give me an example either. Just because something hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it can’t or that we shouldn’t try to make it.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The problem is supporting the projects you like is a bit different when it’s something like… Building a bridge vs adding some code to a git repo lol
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Why, if the bridge will be beneficial to the community why wouldn’t it set up a donation goal to build it? If enough people want it i.e. the percived value of it is greater than the percived value of money they’re donating it will succeed, if not, it will fail because the community voted with their wallets that it wasn’t worth it and they would rather put their money somewhere else.