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It's an interesting untruth, that mechanised farming methods are designed to maximise yield. In fact they are designed to maximise profit.
Other food production methods (Permaculture for example) far out outstrip the yield of industrial monoculture, sometimes by a factor of ten or more. They are just labour intensive and so less profitable.
@aral @torgo As I see it the first thing to democratize is basic communications. Being able to run fediverse instances or other kinds of decentralized communications, perhaps with mesh or just via conventional internet architecture. An internet run by and for the people.
Once you have that then you can also begin to think about civic systems which are more about creating organizations with roles are workflows and perhaps voting mechanisms in a quite dynamic way which also allows organizations to interface their workflows more efficiently than is possible today. There is something like this idea within Pursuance, but whether that project amounts to anything remains to be seen.
@stuartb By about 2010 if you were in the 1% category then things were back to normal and capital income has continued to grow since. For everyone else income has typically either remained the same or declined.
In the UK there has been a recovery in employment according to the official figures, but much of that is precarious zero hours or intermittent Uber driving type work where people still struggle to cover basic costs, like food and heating.
@indi I havn't used it, but it's another possibility. ZeroNet doesn't need Bitcoin, but it does have a name system which I think depends on centralized infrastructure. Last time I inquired about it it was said that the identity system is optional.
@indi I know it has been talked about, and there is a javascript version of IPFS, so it might happen. It would be good if browsers such as Firefox supported things like DAT, IPFS and ZeroNet by default. That would begin to break the hegemony of ICANN.
@aral @tryphon I notice that the EU has some sort of next generation internet research project about to start and run over the next few years. It mentions decentralization and "internet of people" type stuff. Maybe that might be worth investigating.
From a Rosa Luxemburg memorial. When Lenin fell out of favor after the end of the cold war it was replaced with the somewhat less ambitious Luxemburg quote:
"Freedom is always the freedom to think differently"
"The blood of the best of the global proletarian Internationale, the unforgotten leaders of the socialist world revolution, will harden more and more masses of workers for the life-and-death struggle, and this struggle will lead us to victory"