Thank you FOSS, for preparing the money train once more

Thank you @yuu for this nice food for thought, and welcome to the forum :smiley:

Yes, our Free Culture only further enables hypercapitalism. We continue to gift-wrap great ideas + instruction set to realize and then offer them to the first person to corrupt them.

Loser generated power

On the “Sharism” wikipedia page there’s mention of “loser generated content”. This hot take goes a bit further to trigger more thoughts and discussion.

  • Hypercapitalism is a “winner-take-all” system unfairly balanced to those inclined to bend the rules, i.e. bring their vices to bear.
  • As a result this system is inherently unsustainable, as it feeds on any force that is unhealthy for it. This guarantees its eventual demise, but no telling when that happens and what ruins then remain.
  • Meanwhile hypercapitalism erodes everything that is good. Like Humanity for instance.
  • On the Humanity front we find the well-principled, common-sense applying fine people of Free Culture movements offering resistance. There are many Virtues to be restored, one by one and all together.
  • One such important quality is Transparency. Hold in high regard, free culturists do all their work out in the open. This is very important to inspire other free culturalists and get flourishing collaboration going.

→ Humanity is powerful instrument. With positive energy powerful solutions are created this way.

This would all be great, if not corrupting powers hadn’t full access too and the ability to move with more speed, as it is their hypercapitalist system within which these solutions were crafted. So.. Hypercapitalism takes the free (beer) gift and uses the extra power to corrupt some more.

The losers are resigned for that to happen. Disappointed, yes, but still they continue.. to prepare and brew their next beer.


Can we be more FOSS Strategic here, with important condition to keep our full set of values and principles in place?

  • Can we diminish the failure conditions we vowed to live by? E.g. does everything need to be Radically Transparent? Or is Eventual Transparency a concession that is warranted, given circumstance?