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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • It’s the same delusion and corruption from a neoliberal corporate-whore political class that led to every country growing dependent on US tech companies, and Chinese manufacturing. They represent corporations; not their constituents.

    If they’d all committed to open source and domestic companies for support and infra, the compounding effect of tens of thousands of engineers across governments working on linux and other FLOSS products would have made everything significantly cheaper and more efficient for all of them in a matter of years, compared to paying a foreign tech company for everything in perpetuity… and that’s before you consider the multitude of other risks and vulnerabilities to national security.










  • It makes a lot of sense that we live in oligarchies when you realise that the entire economic system — every business — is an oligarchy; competing with other oligarchies. Businesses where the majority owner/shareholder is 1 person are basically dictatorships. Family owned businesses are dynasties. We’re really a stones throw from the feudalism and monarchs of old.

    It’s kind of mentally ill to believe that the entire economic system could be structured this way, but the political system could be democracy; the exact opposite…