No #rich people, I'm not going to help you giving meaning to your exploitive activities. I'm not accepting your help that comes through that. You want to do something meaningful? Share the accumulated values with those that you have exploited before. But not as an one time gift. Take part in building structures distributing resources as commons. In case what you are part in producing does only have meaning in a society ordered after #capitalism, stop it right away.
What resources (not just material) do you\we need to have a stable life independent from #capitalism? Which resources do you\we have? Which resources are you\we able to share? How can you\we organize those resources that are missing? Where\how do you\we need help in organizing the resources? How can you\we distribute the resources? There is life after capitalism. There is life as we want it when we organize accordingly. It starts with you! #questioningsociety
@vulpesvulpes I believe that will always remains an open question. Thought it won't be a loss in reach to only write about the bigger events via fb|tw but get the main presence in the #fediverse. Also: with #hambibleibt many activist want to link the local struggle with a pattern that spreads all over the world, creating issues alike: #capitalism. A soft switch could fit that wish. 1|2
> The fact is that as #EvgenyMorozov pointed out, #OpenSource is a byproduct of Corporations and Venture Capitalism.
That's not a fact, it's the story he tells. The other story, the one that Christine Peterson tells, is that "open source" was a hack to get corporations to support and fund the free code software, instead of fighting it. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software
So there's what happened, and there's the story we tell ourselves about it.
"Apple has been storing profits in overseas tax havens to the tune of more than $285 billion—cash reserves large enough to meet the International Food Policy Research Institute’s yearly goal to end hunger by 2030 and buy Boeing or McDonalds with what is leftover."
> Google is a symptom of the bigger problem: surveillance capitalism in general. As long as surveillance is the business model of the Internet, things like this are inevitable.
*Ethiopia: Dutch Company Using Scientific Jargon to Avoid Teff Patent Right Controversy*
""For someone from Europe, in a different continent, to come and say we patented teff and the copyright is ours" an Ethiopian Kassahun Gebrehana, owner of the Little Addis Café in Maboneng, Johannesburg, shakes his head […] "Have they been eating it for centuries? We have.""