Advisory Briefs 🛠️The purpose of homes should be to house people. The purpose of healthcare should be healing. The purpose of farming should be feeding. Under capitalism, the purpose of all is profit.
EyalL@advisorybriefs how do you make the purpose of enough people be health care or farming, while also allowing them to fulfill that purpose effectively?
@EyalL The same way people made insulin, kibbutzes, co-ops, Linux, or Mastodon -- for the good of the collective.
@advisorybriefs do you know what happened to the kibbutzes?
Every attempt to do this on a large scale ended in catastrophe
@EyalL Weird take from a guy on a FOSS platform. Also, the kibbutzes thrived for nearly a century -- about twice as long as the state of Israel has existed & longer than nearly every for-profit entity ever.
They biggest problem they faced was anti-communist persecution during the late cold war, because of course they did.
Even that didn't kill the kibbutz movement, with ~120k people living in them today.
For more information, see: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-the-kibbutz-movement
@advisorybriefs that's not true. There is maybe one or two kibutzes that are still communal like the beginning
They turned towards capitalism as soon as the enthusiastic first generation was replaced with a new generation that didn't care for those ideals
I'm all for foss and maybe even abolition of copyrights. Does that mean I should support an idea that very rarely was implemented successfully and almost always resulted in starvation and evil dictatorships?