Submitted 2 months ago by alex@jlai.lu to technology@lemmy.world
https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2024/06/how-can-we-return-to-techno-optimism/
Take patent, trademark, and copyright laws to what they were in, say, 1790, might be a good start.
Regard today’s billionaires with the same contempt that one does of criminals.
Wait at least 5 years before buying a new computer.
Don’t pay by credit card.
Don’t pay by credit card.
This is bad advice for anyone with good credit and spending habits. A credit card with rewards is just free money if you’re responsible with it. I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.
Yep, the rich are rich because they borrow other peoples money. 0% free interest lines are about the best discount you can get on anything. I get to make the interest while you hold the loan? Sign me up! Siri, remind me in 11 months to pay off the X loan.
Fair enough, but they know what you bought.
There are no free money. These are loans. And making them attractive with cashbacks and rewards is done to trap unresponsible spenders. 95% of the time you don’t need to borrow money from the bank, unless you are in emergency or you are to invest these to achieve some payback (e.g. a loan to open your business).
Reduce tech bro and VC headcount via analog French method.
Is this the same method the guy who discovered Oxygen was subjected to? If yes, I’d smash the “Oui” button.
I’ll be optimistic about technology when the last techbro is strangled with the entrails of the last angel investor
We stop the acquisitions. We work out ways to foster innovation and protect patents only in the short term.
We need more than a couple phone manufacturers, we need more than a couple of food producers. All of these monolith mega corporations keep smaller upstarts from coming up and competing.
And more than a couple operating systems. We get a lot of horrifyingly bad compatibility issues from Apple, and to a lesser degree, Google.
Unfortunately some things will IMO always remain a natural monopoly. For example good luck trying to convince developers to write their apps for all those different operating systems.
And it’s hard for anyone to say no to multi-millions that will change your family’s life by selling when it’s not even 1% of the corporations profit. Can’t blame them for selling out really. I’d do the same thing and so would you.
We can at least stop crap like this
confectioneryproduction.com/…/mars-moves-to-deliv…
They actually said in their review of the sale that they’ll be able to do better price fixing even if grocery stores demand price cuts.
The use of open, decentralized platforms such as the fediverse is one small step in the right direction at least.
FOSS / fediverse is really the only tech stuff that isn’t massively disappointing as of late.
Once capitalism is dead.
Technology is great, it’s just naturally being used to exploit.
Round up all MBAs and put them in reeducation camps
Anarcho-transhumanism, or ig more open source innovations unsullied by the profit motive would-be nice.
Get rot economists out of tech companies and return to private ownership.
“AI will make all of your work obsolete, there’s nothing we can do about it. Shame…”
I’m fine with losing my job, it’s tedious anyway. I’m not with losing my income though. Let automation and programs do the work and share the fruit of their labor to the people. Get rid of CEOs.
Then we can talk about optimism.
Great article, totally agree with the author. I would still be concerned with that power moving to the government, particularly in countries with limited options for true representation (eg. two party systems, where it is usually more a matter of “lesser evil” voting), but that then becomes the next challenge; still more appropriate in the government’s hands than the level of power corporations currently wield.
Concrete goals, and reasonable steps to achieve them.
I feel like lately we’ve hit a weird speculative investment period in tech, where we have a bunch of tech that’s created because it can be, but not because it’s needed. Do LLMs, crypto currency, or NFTs have actual uses? Very possibly, but nothing concrete enough to satisfy the bubble that formed from them.
We live in an age of unreality. Give us something achievable and genuine, we get excited. It doesn’t have to be complicated, just real. Hell, I’m excited as fuck over solid sodium batteries, and that’s boring as shit.
We cannot even play music from a device without needing some sort of patent license, usually paid by the hardware vendor.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Anti-capitalist regulations, I imagine.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anti monopoly and regulations against anti competitive practices are cornerstones of capitalism ensuring free and fair competition.
So no, what we need is a return back to when these practices weren’t allowed, away from allowing these things more than ever as we do now.
It’s easy to see Russia has become an oligarchy, why can’t we see it’s happening to us too?
coolmojo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me tell you about the Nordic model
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No, that’s the opposite of capitalism.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s why they do regulatory capture to prevent that from happening. It all starts with money being equal to influence. This can temporarily be reset after a big crash of the system but sooner or later they start again.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Refulations only exosg because Capitalism would consume itself without guardrails.