I suppose ultimately my problem isnt with the technology but with capitalism. The system where technological growth is second to infinite economic growth. Thats why many people like me fear the advance of technology. Because they do not advance technology for the common good but for the good of capital. Because of that they’re willing to do dangerous things in the namd of profit.
OK, but that seems unrelated to the subject. If you’re going to reject any tech project regardless because it’s been spawned by a capitalist system I’m not going to be super interested in your take about the tech, I’m more interested in your take about capitalism. Otherwise we’re stuck hearing the same speech about how bad tech is over and over again when it’s really not about tech.
To put it another way: get back to me on the tech once you fix capitalism. In the meantime we’re both stuck here and I will continue to exercise some care in separating good developments from bad ones.
Heres the thing, good technological development is possible under capitalism. Thats called open source software, its the only thing that keeps me exited in technology (advancements like Risc-V). I suppose I should have started with this, I dont trust companies and I especially dont trust proprietary hardware. Yes I understand thats ironic since no hardware is truly open source but I do think that we should focus on hardware that’s as open as possible.
I suppose ultimately my problem isnt with the technology but with capitalism. The system where technological growth is second to infinite economic growth. Thats why many people like me fear the advance of technology. Because they do not advance technology for the common good but for the good of capital. Because of that they’re willing to do dangerous things in the namd of profit.
OK, but that seems unrelated to the subject. If you’re going to reject any tech project regardless because it’s been spawned by a capitalist system I’m not going to be super interested in your take about the tech, I’m more interested in your take about capitalism. Otherwise we’re stuck hearing the same speech about how bad tech is over and over again when it’s really not about tech.
To put it another way: get back to me on the tech once you fix capitalism. In the meantime we’re both stuck here and I will continue to exercise some care in separating good developments from bad ones.
Heres the thing, good technological development is possible under capitalism. Thats called open source software, its the only thing that keeps me exited in technology (advancements like Risc-V). I suppose I should have started with this, I dont trust companies and I especially dont trust proprietary hardware. Yes I understand thats ironic since no hardware is truly open source but I do think that we should focus on hardware that’s as open as possible.