On Monday, 27 May 2019 at 05:34:55 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
I suspect our closest hope may lie with something like this:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_purpose_corporation>
Although, even that only seems a mere "step in the right
direction", rather than a solution...(Under it,
It is hard to tell. IKEA is a foundation, it's creator insists
that it is real, others might say that it is so for taxation
reasons. Certainly for profit, yet has some social profile by not
being "snobbish".
Here in Norway the COOP has become quite big over the years, but
they are very much for profit, although are technically owned by
their customers.
In the US you have FSF though, which totally changed the software
industry in the 90s with the GPL. Granted BSD has since then
gained ground, but I don't think that would have happened without
the GPL to the same extent. I think the GPL created some sort of
competition for attention in the software sector? GCC also
totally undercut commercial compilers…
Kinda funny. (Unless you are a compiler publisher…)
the US: Anything that doesn't directly facilitate "money is
power, might makes right" just gets labeled "communist" or
"socialist" and rejected outright by the nationalist rednecks
we've been overrun by ever since 9/11. (Go figure, they attack
Well, there was a lot of brainwashing on both sides during the
cold war (until to 1990). It takes time for it to fade away,
although the younger US generation that I see in youtube comment
fields appears to be openminded?
had. Figures, coming from the same fine folks who brought the
world such hits as "Puritanism", "Witch Trials" and "Shorten a
I think our situation is better when smaller parties get a say.
When there is two big parties that switch roles then they become
too smug, when a big party has to beg a small party for support
then they become more humble…
But I guess parliamentarism would be difficult to establish in
the US as the constitution seems to be revered by many as holy.
