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And here is the wearable keyboard you attach to it
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@serapath
> And here is the wearable keyboard you attach to it
Epic! How do I get one?
ha ๐
yay. i put you on the list.
As soon as it is done.
It might take a few more month before becoming really ready, but will ping you ๐
...also, i got a baby some weeks ago, so that might slow down progress a bit more, but still, i am eager to get it done. With the baby it is hard to work on a laptop, but having this keyboard and AR glasses woyld make it easier again ๐
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@serapath
> sadly kids and focus on earning a living prevents progress
If only we had a way to funding paying people to work on things like this, without all the admin overhead and paperwork of grant funding. Like, for example, a weekly payment everyone gets to cover their core costs. So we can choose to public interest work on hack on itch-scratching projects instead of spending our days doing whatever rich people will pay us to do.
UBI would solve this. Just saying ...
@serapath
> sadly kids and focus on earning a living prevents progress
If only we had a way to funding paying people to work on things like this, without all the admin overhead and paperwork of grant funding. Like, for example, a weekly payment everyone gets to cover their core costs. So we can choose to public interest work on hack on itch-scratching projects instead of spending our days doing whatever rich people will pay us to do.
UBI would solve this. Just saying ...
i agree, but UBI will never come.
The best we can hope for is holding bitcoin it will appreciate forever - thats second best to UBI and it also doesnt require totalitarian surveillance that can be weaponized in a totalitarian way - which is even scarier because "nazis" are trending worldwide ...
also, bitcoin ends inflation so stuff stays affordable.
lastly without money printers, ppl HAVE to collaborate and will need to care finally.
@serapath
> UBI will never come
People used to say the same thing about all sorts of stuff that's now commonplace. Elected governments replacing the divine right of kings. Public education systems that have normalised literacy across most of the world. Public health systems that have eliminated whole diseases in some countries.
The capitalists who want the power to decide how we spend our working lives didn't want us believing any of those things would happen either ...
hm, i joined UBi initiatives and engaged in politics back in the late 90s and early 2000s and have followed it since then. In germany it even has ppl like foundee of DM store chain supporting it and musk also calls for UBI... politicians here and there talked about it but in over 30 years it never went anywhere.
...and maybe we can wait another 20-30 years and hope that in europe/germany, some "Merz" or maybe Hรถcke/Weidel will do it. I dont see it. it gets worse and worse
@strypey @EdTheDev
In fact, the fiat money printer system IS what enriches the billionaires. No billionaire earned their wealth on the market, they all get it from the government/banks money printers and if their pet projects fail, they just print more money for new ones and houses & stuff gets more unaffordable all the time.
In fact, a UBI we all would get can be made just as useless by printing even more for their projects, making inflation eat up all UBI value.
lets just turn it off and...
...instead build strong mutual aid solidarity networks. we dont need big politics to drop some crumbs from the table to keep us supporting their crony system.
the poor are NOT supported in current systems, i know it from first hand experience and many ppl in my social networks - its just rich corrupt ppl for the most part and a few organized pockets of society that benefit - the millions dont
@serapath
> i joined UBi initiatives and engaged in politics back in the late 90s and early 2000s and have followed it since then
Same. In Aotearoa it's gone from a fringe idea promoted by a couple of small groups, to being an idea supported by the last NZ Minister of Finance. It's promoted as serious policy by a party that will most likely have MPs after the imminent election.
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@serapath
> UBI we all would get can be made just as useless by printing even more for their projects, making inflation eat up all UBI value
... unless it comes with tax reform, so it doesn't increase the money supply. This is an implementation detail, not an insolvable problem with a UBI.
> instead build strong mutual aid solidarity networks
These are not mutually exclusive, let's do both. Just like campaigning for anti-monopoly enforcement and building decentralised networks.
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@serapath
> the poor are NOT supported in current systems
Poverty is a human-constructed situation. "The poor" would not exist in an equitable political-economic system. Like one with a UBI sufficient to cover the basics of life, for example.
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yes, the poor might not exist in a different system, BUT i dont believe taxes are possible.
It would require global coordination between countries like Russia, India, China, USA, Europe, etc... this seems unrealistic and even then - the reason middle class is taxed on income is because its easy. Taxing rich folks is difficult and they have the money to bribe and pay smart people to find all the loop holes ...and if you want to stick to the rule of law this wont work imho
...but what you could check is WHY they get so rich in the first place ...and you would discove rthey print the money for themselves and then hpuse prices and everything goes up ...so how about we end their money printer privilege? ...that would stop them to become so insanely rich in the first place ...you wpuldnt even need the taxes to curb the effects that wouldnt exist to begin with ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@serapath
> Taxing rich folks is difficult and they have the money to bribe and pay smart people to find all the loop holes
That's why land taxes make sense. Owning land is the easiest way to collect economic rents, and it's the most secure, long-term store of wealth. Land is impossible to hide, and rich people can't take it with them if they want to move their wealth offshore. States could easily stop recognizing the freehold title of anyone who refused to pay their land lax.
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@serapath
> Taxing rich folks is difficult and they have the money to bribe and pay smart people to find all the loop holes
That's why land taxes make sense. Owning land is the easiest way to collect economic rents, and it's the most secure, long-term store of wealth. Land is impossible to hide, and rich people can't take it with them if they want to move their wealth offshore. States could easily stop recognizing the freehold title of anyone who refused to pay their land lax.
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Obviously I'm assuming a system of government where people actually get to make the rules that govern our lives (ie actual democracy). Instead of a system where governments make rules that benefit the 1%, at everyone else's expense, and we get to choose which people get to play roles in those governments (ie "representative democracy").
We probably need some kind of democratic revolution to bring about that situation. That's neither certain, nor impossible.
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@serapath
> UBI will never come
People used to say the same thing about all sorts of stuff that's now commonplace. Elected governments replacing the divine right of kings. Public education systems that have normalised literacy across most of the world. Public health systems that have eliminated whole diseases in some countries.
The capitalists who want the power to decide how we spend our working lives didn't want us believing any of those things would happen either ...
Having experienced politics for the last > 45 years now i dont see how UBI will EVER be a thing. ...i dont believe space karen and their claim everyone will get UBI, but i still more believe space karen might bring about UBi than our politicians and governments ...and if there is ever UBI ...runaway inflation and cost increase will make it unusable.
you just habe too much hope i think.
i share the wish, but i rather get bitcoin as bird in the hand than two in the bush
