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- URL: https://x.com/DarkCisum/status/1996486310958334421
- Author: Lukas (@DarkCisum)
- Posted: 2025-12-04 07:46:44
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1/ @DarkCisum
@rfleury
Is the answer really lots of small walled gardens? I guess you can potentially keep the large corps out, though you need to vet every member to make sure they aren’t “spies”.
What’s missing here is a non-economic view. Not everything has to financially “make sense”.
2/ @rfleury
@DarkCisum
Ultimately, it does, because economics is not some orthogonal political subject, it’s the study of decentralized human action & cooperative productivity.
3/ @DarkCisum
@rfleury
On a high level, yes. Though economics doesn’t need to be the driving force, the motivation of the producer.
Just because the good does have economic effects, doesn’t mean the producer needs to consider or prioritize it.
You may argue they should, but they don’t have to.
4/ @rfleury
@DarkCisum
This is completely backwards. Economics is the study of human action, however it is motivated. Economic effects are downstream from the sum of a population’s individual desires & motivations, and ultimately actions.
5/ @rfleury
@DarkCisum
The FOSS idea of “work & produce software for free” is not in conflict just with economics, but with a basic understanding of the human condition. It’s entirely divorced from reality.
6/ @Karyuutensei
@rfleury @DarkCisum
I think you might be confusing the meaning of “free”. “Free” in the free software movement means freedom, not free of payment. How you can make money with a free software license is another matter, though. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
7/ @rfleury
@Karyuutensei @DarkCisum
Licenses are not magic spells.