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   aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:24:18 JST aeva

   i think society would be better if they just handed out money to people no questions asked, but i suppose it's true some people might use it to be happy

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:24:14 JST Rich Felker

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     @aeva Most of the work people in my industry do makes my life, and the world at large, much worse. I would be happy if they just stopped working. We have the technology for the world to operate with maybe 10% of people working 5-20 hour work weeks when they want extra money or want to do things that excite them and everyone else just refraining from making the world worse and doing non work things that make it better as they like.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:24:16 JST aeva

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     "but how will we force people to work without the threat of poverty" buddy it's not like I'm gonna stop making video games

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:24:17 JST aeva

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     they literally can't run out of money they're the government they can just make more of it "but what about inflation" buddy we literally cannot run out of numbers

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     datenwolf (datenwolf@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:43:41 JST datenwolf

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @aeva

     I'll happily spend 40 hours a week doing science. What really grinds my gears is all the bureaucracy BS hustling for grant money.

     Just give me a lab and a yearly total budget of ~250000€ for buying stuff, paying contractors and paying my salary from, and allow me to carry any leftover into the next fiscal year. I'll churn out royalty free medical imaging tech.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 19:46:10 JST Rich Felker

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     • datenwolf

     @datenwolf @aeva This. Even if you have a rate of 10% or even 50% cranks, this system would turn out more and better prosocial technology than capitalism ever could.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 21:45:34 JST Rich Felker

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     • Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
     • datenwolf

     @TimWardCam @datenwolf @aeva You're literally better off ditching the institution and running a YouTube channel on your research to fund it. 🤦

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     Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 21:45:35 JST Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

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     • datenwolf

     @datenwolf @dalias @aeva It was ever thus. A typical three year academic contract consisted of (and still does for all I know)

     * one year scrabbling around to get the grants to buy the necessary kit

     * one year doing actual work

     * one year applying for the next three year job.

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 00:03:16 JST FoolishOwl

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     • datenwolf

     @dalias @datenwolf @aeva We'd be better off if most people did no work except cleaning up after themselves.

     How much work does your pet cat do? Yet they bring joy to your life.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 03:01:34 JST Rich Felker

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     • Beady Belle Fanchannel

     @Profpatsch @datenwolf @aeva There are more than enough people who would go clean up streets now and then or regularly for a little extra money if they weren't forced to be scrambling for the necessities to stay alive and had the freedom (and thereby respect) to choose if/when to do it.

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     Beady Belle Fanchannel (profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 03:01:36 JST Beady Belle Fanchannel

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     • datenwolf

     @datenwolf @dalias @aeva would you go clean streets if they offered you money for that instead? I guess the amount is not relevant because everybody who makes food just does it cause they want to

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     Morgan ⚧️ (raphaelmorgan@disabled.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 06:35:52 JST Morgan ⚧️

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @aeva not to mention those of us who already do tech work for free, most of whom are limited by our lack of money and time due to capitalism. I have so many projects I could be contributing to or maintaining if I didn't have to constantly be worrying about how I'm gonna survive and help my loved ones survive. Every good FOSS project without corporate backers would be so much better if its devs didn't have to worry about survival. They could start really competing with corporate tech.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 06:35:52 JST Rich Felker

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     • Morgan ⚧️

     @raphaelmorgan @aeva The ones with corporate backers would be better too because they wouldn't have corporate strings.