翠星石 on Nostr: Sandra >We need new ways to put food on the table I would suggest maybe getting seeds ...
Sandra (npub1syh…zg82) >We need new ways to put food on the table
I would suggest maybe getting seeds cheaply and planting crops and getting chickens - doing so is reasonably cheap provided you have access to some land and you might be able to fund that from selling floppy disks of GNU software even.
That isn't very convenient or easy, but you did get food on the table (but nothing else).
>I'm not eager to join up some pyramid scheme lottery where we all buy floppies or LiberaPay subscriptions
There's no way to make a payment with "Libre"Pay without running proprietary software, so I will never use it unless that's fixed.
>UBI, crowdfunding, there's a bunch of ways.
It would be entirely possible to make farming arrangements in such a way that nobody has to worry about food unless there's overpopulation, but that won't happen, as food companies got to get that profit.
>Or we can radically reimagine the way humans distribute tasks and resources by thinking way out of the box.
That works fine for software, as copying has zero marginal cost and that sort of sharing happens often with free software.
Trying to apply that to physical things is sadly not very likely to succeed, as most humans are not rational actors and are perfectly capable of being so greedy that they end up ruining everything.
I would suggest maybe getting seeds cheaply and planting crops and getting chickens - doing so is reasonably cheap provided you have access to some land and you might be able to fund that from selling floppy disks of GNU software even.
That isn't very convenient or easy, but you did get food on the table (but nothing else).
>I'm not eager to join up some pyramid scheme lottery where we all buy floppies or LiberaPay subscriptions
There's no way to make a payment with "Libre"Pay without running proprietary software, so I will never use it unless that's fixed.
>UBI, crowdfunding, there's a bunch of ways.
It would be entirely possible to make farming arrangements in such a way that nobody has to worry about food unless there's overpopulation, but that won't happen, as food companies got to get that profit.
>Or we can radically reimagine the way humans distribute tasks and resources by thinking way out of the box.
That works fine for software, as copying has zero marginal cost and that sort of sharing happens often with free software.
Trying to apply that to physical things is sadly not very likely to succeed, as most humans are not rational actors and are perfectly capable of being so greedy that they end up ruining everything.