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by evantbyrne 223 days ago
Congratulations, you just reinvented slavery.

But if you take the government out of the equation, and instead mandate contribution via project licenses, that might be worth a try.

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They're just trying to work around a fundamental flaw of all "communal" organizational structures --- freeloaders, aka human nature.

Forced labor is typically a last ditch effort to prop up a system that is inherently unsustainable.