From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

Imagine a system where contributing to the common good is our yardstick for success, not personal enrichment by any means possible.

Such a system would not extract a “cost of living.” A dignified life with access to modern housing, healthcare, etc., would be considered a human right. Furthermore, everyone would have a basic income they can use however they wish. Imagine the progress we could make as a species if more of us could contribute to science, to art, to all aspects of human knowledge and the human experience because we were no longer wasting our entire time on Earth just trying to make ends meet.

This is not some pipe dream. For the first time in history we have the technological means to implement such a system.

Instead, we choose to live under the yoke of capitalism, a cancer that rewards the tumours that feast on society. Instead we use our technology to build walls, to mass murder, and to destroy our own habitat.

Again for the first time in history, we have the technological means to destroy our entire species or to expand it to new horizons.

Humanity has reached adolescence. Whether we make it to adulthood is up to us entirely.

Finally!

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-civil-servants-new-messaging-services/