JPMar 30
futures i still believe are possible:
- civilization no longer depends on fossil fuels
- food, housing, physical and mental healthcare for all
- no billionaires
- full reparations to the colonized and the enslaved
- computing without big tech
- an internet without advertising
- total liberation for gender nonconforming people
Show thread2qx 🔻Mar 30

@jplebreton

If my local newspaper's website returns a 402 Error, how will I pay them in your utopia?

Petro-dollars? petro-bitcoin?

EDIT:

If everything is pegged to fossil fuel backed money, it's going to result in endless wars, artificial scarcity, surveillance and worse.

Show threadGeoff MackenzieMar 30
@2qx @jplebreton accurate reporting is a public good and should be free at the point of delivery. Assuming our utopia still has money, fund it from taxes
Show thread2qx 🔻Mar 30

@radicalabacus

Your proposal is that people won't be allowed to pay for the news and the state must do it?

Show threadGeoff Mackenzie
@2qx No; I'm suggesting that it is good for society if people have access to news, so society should collectively provide that access. I don't really care about allowing/preventing payment, or money, or states. As long as our hypothetical society still has money, if producing and delivering the news requires some money, then some sort of entity needs to collect contributions and make funding available. Personally I would prefer a utopia without money, but I don't have a plan for how to get there
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Show thread2qx 🔻Mar 30

@radicalabacus

We can transition slowly to a post monetary society, but I think, in the interim, I'd like to buy a newspaper with some solarpunk internet money.

I have the money, but the "free press" isn't allowed to accept it for some reason.