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Friday, January 24, 2014
Izabella Kaminska — God complex
More on ethics, social and political philosophy, and economics as they relate to future society from the ever-provocative Izabella.
Re: "there will inevitably be a battle for total domination of technology, and via that everything."
One of my ideas for a JG/WPA project, is to hire unemployed/underemployed geeks (yes, there are unemployed and underemployed geeks, lots of them) to write open source software. For EVERYTHING.
Replace Windoze with JG-Linux.
Replace AutoCad with JG-Cad.
Replace Internet Explorer with JG-Explorer.
Replace Facebook with JG-Space.
Replace Blogger with JG-Blog.
Ditto for all business and industrial software. Open source software for EVERYTHING.
Open source software is doing pretty well already, but government sponsorship would make it the new standard.
The JG-ware would become standard government issue for government.
Needless to say, Bill Gates and company would scream bloody murder. You'd probably have to buy them out, or else tax them out of existence. Politically, it would require a major turn of events, but then so would just about any other type of economic reform.
My proposal would break a couple of conventional JG rules. 1) It would compete with private enterprise, but I think it is justified because the computer software biz is monopolistic and because I view computers and the internet as sort of public space.
2) Instead of paying $12/hr, I would set a different minimum wage for each skill category, so that skilled workers would not feel that JG work was an insult. This is in keeping with my belief that the JG/WPA should attempt to accommodate all sorts of workers, not just unskilled/lowskilled workers.
I've given up debating hardcore MMTer's on the JG subject because they are set in their thinking and accuse me of being a troll.
Re: "there will inevitably be a battle for total domination of technology, and via that everything."
ReplyDeleteOne of my ideas for a JG/WPA project, is to hire unemployed/underemployed geeks (yes, there are unemployed and underemployed geeks, lots of them) to write open source software. For EVERYTHING.
Replace Windoze with JG-Linux.
Replace AutoCad with JG-Cad.
Replace Internet Explorer with JG-Explorer.
Replace Facebook with JG-Space.
Replace Blogger with JG-Blog.
Ditto for all business and industrial software. Open source software for EVERYTHING.
Open source software is doing pretty well already, but government sponsorship would make it the new standard.
The JG-ware would become standard government issue for government.
Needless to say, Bill Gates and company would scream bloody murder. You'd probably have to buy them out, or else tax them out of existence. Politically, it would require a major turn of events, but then so would just about any other type of economic reform.
My proposal would break a couple of conventional JG rules. 1) It would compete with private enterprise, but I think it is justified because the computer software biz is monopolistic and because I view computers and the internet as sort of public space.
2) Instead of paying $12/hr, I would set a different minimum wage for each skill category, so that skilled workers would not feel that JG work was an insult. This is in keeping with my belief that the JG/WPA should attempt to accommodate all sorts of workers, not just unskilled/lowskilled workers.
I've given up debating hardcore MMTer's on the JG subject because they are set in their thinking and accuse me of being a troll.
But I like my idea. :-)
I like it. Does the NSA leak expose the Microsoft bank? No.
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