I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.
@trevorflowers I hadn't made this connection before, but now that you mention it I've noticed that UBI is particularly popular with devs: I often see studies and news stories about it hit the HN front page.
"Retire early and do FOSS dev" is a common refrain, too. (Will be interesting to see how many 40-something programmers are actually able to do that in ~10yrs time.)
@trevorflowers since college my dream was to work on FOSS but it never materialized as I had to pay bills somehow. If I had UBI it most certainly would have become a reality as I all I needed is some eggs, ramen and a laptop.
I trully believe UBI would be the biggest positive societal shift since the internet. That extra safety net is just so invaluable for human creativity!
One comment I didn't see in the thread, which has some great comments by the way, is the assumption on the past of many, perhaps most people that UBI means that no one would work.
Which is ridiculous. People love to do and make things when they aren't getting paid. The problem is getting people to do shitty jobs. So, put down another benefit of UBI that there would less shitty jobs.
The shitty jobs still exist and still need to get done, even when there's #UBI. The difference is, with UBI people can say "No" to shitty jobs with poor pay. So to get the shitty jobs done they have to pay enough so people want to do them. UBI makes shitty jobs a bit less shitty.
@bobjonkman@MylesRyden@trevorflowers you might be amazed at how quickly technology would eliminate shitty jobs when people have to be convinced rather than coerced into doing them.
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