Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 170

@LPS ae, Team Human has had a series of great guests. I'd love to see #RadioNZ in my country replaying some of them. I wonder whether Doug puts the podcasts under a #CreativeCommons license?

@bob ok, so in what context would a pastebin be more useful than a pad? My understanding is that pads already existed when the first pastebins turned up, so why do pastebins exist?

I mean, for example, what are the differences between, and advantages/ disadvantages of, #CryptPad vs. #PrivateBin?
https://cryptpad.fr/
https://privatebin.info/

Question: what's the difference between a pad (like #Etherpad) and a #PasteBin, why are there separate packages for these?

@LibertyPaulM ... but most of the figures look at all forms of compensation to wage earners, not just monetary wages, and if you remove the proportion of monetary renumeration that goes back to people who are part of the top 1% in the form of massive CEO salaries and multi-million $ performance bonuses, it makes the gap between productivity rises and aggregate compensation rises even bigger, not smaller.

@LibertyPaulM I'm guessing you and Chris Shaw have probably been reading stuff like this, that obfuscates the issue by waffling about "gross decoupling" vs. "net decoupling" and claiming that the figures are being distorted by higher non-wage compensation costs, and inequality; a higher proportion of wages and salaries going to the top 1% of earners:
http://101.96.10.64/cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp401.pdf

@LibertyPaulM ah I see, ONS is Office of National Statistics. Here's an article from 2014 that quotes the ONS as saying exactly the opposite to what you're claiming about productivity vs. compensation in the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/31/real-wages-falling-longest-period-ons-record

@LibertyPaulM I'm not sure what "ONS" is, but here's a graph for the US, showing the relationship between productivity and compensation from 1948 to 2017: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

It shows that compensation has barely risen since 1973 (12.4% increase), while productivity has risen by 77%. In other words, you are technically correct about the recent figures (blame the Orange Menace?), but when looked at on a longer timescale they are a temporary blip. The exception, not the rule.

@LibertyPaulM can you expand on how you're defining "productivity" here?

@LibertyPaulM by inadvertently supporting the project of substituting establishment left-liberals for neo-liberals as the enemy of the working class (as if "liberal" is one thing with one meaning across all times and places), we build support not for left libertarianism, but for hyper-conservative, authoritarian nationalism, and we're seeing this play out not only in the US but in the UK, many European countries, Brazil, the Philippines, and so on.

@LibertyPaulM as anarchists, we need to be very careful at this point in history. The collapse of the "neo-liberal" consensus also means the end of the "anti-globalization" coalition we've loosely been part of since the 1990s (if not earlier). It could be argued that this coalition "won", but we're now faced with a struggle for mindshare among all the factions of that collapsed coalition, which includes various forms of working class nationalism, both progressive and authoritarian.

@LibertyPaulM my hot take is that Kelton and Shaw are focused on very different problems. Kelton is (or has recently been) working as a government economist, and is look for a short-term solution to the current crisis (the collapse of the "neo-liberal" consensus), that *isn't* austerity or authoritarian nationalism. Shaw is focused on long-term solutions to the problems represented by the existence of the state-corporate power nexus itself.

@LibertyPaulM
"Productivity gains have not matched wage inflation, and productivity itself is relatively stagnant, particularly in the UK". No reference for this I see. The UK may be the exception, but my understanding is that in NZ and the US productivity has increased steadily since the 1970s, while wage-earners share of national income has stagnated. Not that it's particularly relevant to the author's argument, and I'm not sure why they opened with it.

@natecull let's say I have data I want to keep private. It might be my insect porn collection, or home videos of children in my family. It might be stored on my net-connected PC, or backed up on a remote server, or both. How do I keep it private without putting it in a "big black box" that I "own" (ie a database with permissions requiring authentication etc)? Or am I totally missing your point?

@natecull I feel like this is a discussion you've pitched at the level of experienced software engineers, of which I am most certainly not one. But if you'll indulge me, I'm going to keep poking at this from a user and cablemonkey POV.

@natecull hmm. I remember many years ago seizing on the idea that the whole concept of a server, with a hierarchy of users who grant lesser users permissions, is very aristocratic, and wondering if a server could work if all users were equal peers. It seems naive now ;-) But maybe I was onto something after all?

@LibertyPaulM in the podcast, Stephanie compares and contrasts the jobs guarantee concept with the UBI concept, pointing out that they set out to solve different problems (unemployment vs. poverty), which are related but can't be reduced to one another. It's well worth a listen, particularly for her careful explanation of MMt. Can you expand on why don't you think a jobs guarantee is a good proposal?

@jeremiah you don't think that politicians determine the policy framework within with doctors and hospital administrators are allowed/ forced to make their decisions?

#DougRushkoff recently interviewed the film-maker of Paywall, Jason Schmitt, for the #TeamHuman podcast:
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-109-jason-schmitt/

Paywall: the Business of Scholarship is a documentary about #OpenPublishing vs. the publishing corporations who make massive profits as intermediaries, while the scholars who do the research, write the papers, and do the peer reviewing, do it all unpaid, as a public good.
https://paywallthemovie.com/