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by aleph_minus_one 1139 days ago
> And to finance it, everyone should serve a year of their life for public services like that.

To people who argue like this, I often argued in the past that if I were to contribute on an open source project for one year instead, this would do a lot more good for the public welfare.

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As far as i can see it, we need muscle power, that is not well paid, as it does not scale well. Less software. Software is just fine.