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Trevor Flowers Apr 4, 2024

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

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Mark Gardner Apr 5, 2024

@trevorflowers @AFresh1 Who pays for that and what gives you the right to take it from them?

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@[email protected] @[email protected] True. Sorry to mix metaphors, but when you dangle the notion of a “commons” in front of people, there are those who see the free lunch and others who see the first group as potential serfs.

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Andrew Hewus Fresh

@mjgardner A little less snarky an answer is that your framing is wrong. It's not that property is being "taken", it is that being part of a society includes agreeing to the rules that the society has. Some of those rules where I live include *giving* some of my property to support society by way of paying taxes. If, as a society, we decide that part of that support includes providing a UBI so people have access to basic things necessary for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (that are also considered rights, at least in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and agree that to be a part of the society, the folks who can will agree to contribute towards that.