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by eevilspock
3521 days ago
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I applaud the effort, and I wish more people focused on a first principles approach to fixing society as you do. But I strongly disagree with some of your claims, and stopped reading as a result: "Software people are in a great position to design a new system" What makes you believe this? Many people, myself included (and I write software), think software people would be poor at this. People, society and culture aren't code. Social and emotional intelligence are critical. "We are great at being objective and not being caught up in the zealotry that is coupled with the classical systems of capitalism, communism etc." With all due respect, are you kidding? That is very naive to say the least. To say more, it smacks of Silicon Valley arrogance and smugness, against which, as you may be aware, there is a rising distrust and backlash. |
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I think there are in general 3 areas of information that are useful when contributing to the development of a societal system. Those being:
* Research (History / modern economic research)
* The Cutting Edge (Technology / modern business, project and team management / open source model)
* Domain Knowledge (Specific and detailed knowledge of a particular domain)
Software people have 2 of the 3. Plus they can collaborate easily using the open source model. I think wikipedia is proof that great things can be done without requiring "experts" with a great collaboration model.
I also think that a lot of economics is not relevant if you are going for a "no free enterprise" based system.
> "We are great at being objective and not being caught up in the zealotry that is coupled with the classical systems of capitalism, communism etc."
> With all due respect, are you kidding?
No one is perfect and we aren't free from bias. However, a big part of our jobs is choosing between options eg. technologies. We strive to diminish our egos and bias to make good choices. I think this attribute is very useful for the topic of societal systems which tends to be extremely polarizing (eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/).