JP1d ago
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 🔻1d ago

@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 threadJP1d ago
@2qx begone, coiner
Show thread64 Islands Aroha Cooperative1d ago
@jplebreton @2qx for hundreds of years humans made a living from news without snitching on their customers, it's not utopia
Show thread2qx 🔻1d ago

@airshipper

Yes, I don't want to be bombarded with ads and trackers. I don't want to be tracked with an account and credit card for reading the news. I don't want my news consumption monitored and eventually sold because I have to login to read anything.

Show threadsoc1d ago
@2qx @airshipper Then don't?
Show thread2qx 🔻1d ago

@soc @airshipper

I will pay to read a free press without ads, but I don't want to pay with fossil fuel money. I'm not alone.

If a free press can implement Error 402, I can get them paid. If they can't implement the second error of the internet, are they a free press? who owns the press? and what is the product?

If I can't but a newspaper, who did?

Show threadsoc
@2qx @airshipper Maybe try stepping out of your American mindset.
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