@mangeurdenuage @staticsafe There is also the Noisebridge observation that having a vague CoC, such as "Be excellent to each other" may be the best because if you try to devise a highly elaborate set of rules the sociopaths will always find ways to game them - obeying the letter but not the spirit of the rules.
RT @mcclure111@twitter.com: What if single payer, but with a blockchain
No, no, hear me out. Here's the plan: We create a single payer system. Then we also create a blockchain. The blockchain does nothing, but it gets the libertarians to agree to the plan bc their eyes gaze over when they hear "blockchain"
@staticsafe As soon as you have a CoC you then have a question of enforcement. Especially in small groups it's often the case that nobody wants to be a bouncer or the moralizing finger wagger passing judgement.
I think CoCs are more relevant to larger projects in which peer pressure alone isn't enough to enforce some norms.
I don't necessarily agree with the framing which goes with this, and one point which could have been made at the end is that if current trends continue the only way which the average American can gain a better standard of living is through political organization - not through the education system. Trumpism is one manifestation of that.
Also another point not mentioned. In the 1970s unions switched to the Alinsky model which relied upon separate professional negotiators rather than more grassroots methods coming from workers themselves. This has been proposed as another factor leading to the decline of workers bargaining power in the US from that time onwards.
@skoll But it's not just about individual immorality, it's about the system which generates that. You could whack some moles, but without system change others would immediately pop up again.
@ulfur I saw a video of Kasparov a while ago in which he kept uncritically referring to the US as "the free world". As if the US was some great political model to aspire to. Perhaps his thinking has improved since.