Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Use the right tool for the job, I say.

    I made a decent chunk of change with capitalism. I have a modest house and am well positioned for a middle-class retirement.

    Now I work for the government in a field for which I find the capitalist options wanting.

    I give away my programming guides for free online with no ads, but sell paper copies of the books for profit.

    Could I make more money by charging for the online versions? Sure. But some things are worth more than money.

    The quest for money doesn’t ruin everything, but it sure ruins a lot of things.

    Bell Labs of yore would be my dream company to work for.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Marxists don’t argue for a deonotological disallowing of markets, but believe that those who own the markets should not thereby own the rest of society. I’m sure even you would agree that it would be better is everyone had the comfortable position that you do – and indeed we should move in that direction, even though we cannot simply decide that everyone will be wealthy tomorrow – but we all must work with the conditions we find ourselves in, including to transform those conditions over time.