@maiyannah @pzmyers I think the main argument against GMOs are the business models. So crops are developed which deliberately only last for a single generation and have to be re-purchased continually. It's a way for the megacorps to continuously leech upon farmers.
My daughter just asked me for lockpicks for christmas.
How can I say no?
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 07:30:38 EST
Bob MottramThe idea of a universal micropayment system was promoted early on by people such as Ted Nelson and Jaron Lanier. It's now probably possible to do with some form of cryptocurrency, but even so I'm not convinced that payments for everything is a good idea. Most likely it would merely reproduce the sorts of inequalities which we see in the rest of the economy.
@paulfree14 I don't know how that particular system works, but I can imagine that some really bad economics would develop.
For example, if the poster gets "payed" in cryptocurrency for every reply they get then that would incentivize people posting on the site to make the most inflammatory statements possible so that outraged readers will reply.
If the admin of the site gets payed and not the people posting to it then this encourages the admin to have the maximum number of posts, which means bots, nazis, spam and other random junk. There could also be a whole ecosystem of badness in which people get tricked into posting to the site.
Sounds like an unpleasant combination to me. Perhaps it could be an experiment in universal micropayments, but i expect that will end badly (death by a thousand scams).
I don't necessarily condemn former Microsoft employees. Anyone can make a mistake.