That is an interesting idea I guess?
Maybe Google back in the "don't be evil" days, while they were apparently trying to hire a bunch of PhDs was making some sort of effort at it?
I knew one person there who worked on Google Wave and claimed that Google didn't actually innovate anything they just found ways to take existing research and make it available to end users for no monetary cost.
But, they, from my perspective, lost the path the moment they started AdWords and whatnot. Sure they became massively rich, and their CxOs and founders retired?
I can't imagine retiring, ever. There is no end game to wealth redistribution, until every human is housed (I do not consider paying mortage or rent housing, if anything, it's worse than being homeless, because you're paying some bank or landlord for the "privilege" of a roof?).
I watched what was it, "Dead Man's Wire" recently, and they had a bunch of Gil-Scott Heron "the revolution will not be televised" stuff; but where is the pop culture reprisal or "Whitey on the Moon"? NASA, and SpaceX and BlueOrigin, are all horrid still; and yet I heard gray beards as apologists for Musk and all, since SpaceX is "accomplishing" more than NASA as a private entity? I don't get it, there are a panoply of space programs and all of them, from my vantage: are a waste of resources until we get food scarcity, housing and health care solved for humans on Earth first.
But I used to work as a "Network Security Specialist" at a mining and construction company that had the "largest granite extraction facility West of the Mississippi" (aka the Aromas quarry) where many of the cars in the parking lots read: "EARTH FIRST, WE'LL MINE OTHER PLANETS LATER" and I just can't laugh at that BS anymore. It's so depressing. More people making hell on Earth than trying to undo the damage.
I agree that wealth redistribution is a more important problem to solve than anything else capitalism is presently faced with, but precisely none of those with money and power seem interested in it.
For profit publicly traded companies are legally liable to their shareholders to turn a profit, and risk being litigated against if they fail to deliver.
So, what are the alternatives? The warez scene with "share the wealth" paradigms were, for many decades, where the counter culture sorts toiled their skills (friends of mine were cracking copy protection in elementary school, by middle school we were training console games and more with tools and hardware most still barely know about). But eventually a lot of folks become adults and face more severe penalties or are "turned", becoming operatives for TLAs and the like. ;(
I don't see a lot of winning, I just see layers and layers of losing.
What is the line from that Dead Can Dance song: "How fortunate the man with none"?
Or the Daoists who admire the "uncarved block"?
FSF/GNU seem as if they're resplendent examples of failure to me, attempting to worth "with" copyright as a poison pill? Sophomoric at best. Now RHEL is owned by IBM and certainly not moving the needle forward. It's become the very thing many strove against. Sun? Subsumed by Oracle. Micro$oft, owns GitHub and LinkedIn. The scoundrels keep getting richer, but what is actually improving?
I couldn't give a shit how many FPS some video game renders on some NVIDIA GPU I can't afford that requires active cooling and generates noise pollution in the process, the engineering discipline seemingly died. Decades ago, at that mining and construction company, I had to find fanless multi-head GPUs because fans and airflow: lead to hardware failures in mining sites which are filled with Prop 65 warning dust everywhere.
I know some at NVIDIA, I knew some at SGI; but in general they were always the sorts who seemed to think that they could throw money at a problem and that was good "enough" for their limited needs.
The needs of the many are so much bigger than any problem SGI or NVIDIA ever seemed capable of dreaming about. I have zero faith that any meaningful solutions will come from them.
And when it comes to faith? z0mg, church attendance is so low that I'm amazed when a congregation survives at all. So many are closing due to low attendance.
This was all foreseen in Vedic scripture though. Things are prophesied to get a lot lot worse for a long long time (the current Kali Yuga cycle doesn't end until 428,899 CE) before there's real hope of any improvements. ;(
Maybe Google back in the "don't be evil" days, while they were apparently trying to hire a bunch of PhDs was making some sort of effort at it?
I knew one person there who worked on Google Wave and claimed that Google didn't actually innovate anything they just found ways to take existing research and make it available to end users for no monetary cost.
But, they, from my perspective, lost the path the moment they started AdWords and whatnot. Sure they became massively rich, and their CxOs and founders retired?
I can't imagine retiring, ever. There is no end game to wealth redistribution, until every human is housed (I do not consider paying mortage or rent housing, if anything, it's worse than being homeless, because you're paying some bank or landlord for the "privilege" of a roof?).
I watched what was it, "Dead Man's Wire" recently, and they had a bunch of Gil-Scott Heron "the revolution will not be televised" stuff; but where is the pop culture reprisal or "Whitey on the Moon"? NASA, and SpaceX and BlueOrigin, are all horrid still; and yet I heard gray beards as apologists for Musk and all, since SpaceX is "accomplishing" more than NASA as a private entity? I don't get it, there are a panoply of space programs and all of them, from my vantage: are a waste of resources until we get food scarcity, housing and health care solved for humans on Earth first.
But I used to work as a "Network Security Specialist" at a mining and construction company that had the "largest granite extraction facility West of the Mississippi" (aka the Aromas quarry) where many of the cars in the parking lots read: "EARTH FIRST, WE'LL MINE OTHER PLANETS LATER" and I just can't laugh at that BS anymore. It's so depressing. More people making hell on Earth than trying to undo the damage.
I agree that wealth redistribution is a more important problem to solve than anything else capitalism is presently faced with, but precisely none of those with money and power seem interested in it.
For profit publicly traded companies are legally liable to their shareholders to turn a profit, and risk being litigated against if they fail to deliver.
So, what are the alternatives? The warez scene with "share the wealth" paradigms were, for many decades, where the counter culture sorts toiled their skills (friends of mine were cracking copy protection in elementary school, by middle school we were training console games and more with tools and hardware most still barely know about). But eventually a lot of folks become adults and face more severe penalties or are "turned", becoming operatives for TLAs and the like. ;(
I don't see a lot of winning, I just see layers and layers of losing.
What is the line from that Dead Can Dance song: "How fortunate the man with none"?
Or the Daoists who admire the "uncarved block"?
FSF/GNU seem as if they're resplendent examples of failure to me, attempting to worth "with" copyright as a poison pill? Sophomoric at best. Now RHEL is owned by IBM and certainly not moving the needle forward. It's become the very thing many strove against. Sun? Subsumed by Oracle. Micro$oft, owns GitHub and LinkedIn. The scoundrels keep getting richer, but what is actually improving?
I couldn't give a shit how many FPS some video game renders on some NVIDIA GPU I can't afford that requires active cooling and generates noise pollution in the process, the engineering discipline seemingly died. Decades ago, at that mining and construction company, I had to find fanless multi-head GPUs because fans and airflow: lead to hardware failures in mining sites which are filled with Prop 65 warning dust everywhere.
I know some at NVIDIA, I knew some at SGI; but in general they were always the sorts who seemed to think that they could throw money at a problem and that was good "enough" for their limited needs.
The needs of the many are so much bigger than any problem SGI or NVIDIA ever seemed capable of dreaming about. I have zero faith that any meaningful solutions will come from them.
And when it comes to faith? z0mg, church attendance is so low that I'm amazed when a congregation survives at all. So many are closing due to low attendance.
This was all foreseen in Vedic scripture though. Things are prophesied to get a lot lot worse for a long long time (the current Kali Yuga cycle doesn't end until 428,899 CE) before there's real hope of any improvements. ;(