• DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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    Taking patent, trademark, and copyright laws to what they were in, say, 1790, might be a good start.

    Regard today’s billionaires with the same contempt that one does of criminals.

    Wait at least 5 years before buying a new computer.

    Don’t pay by credit card.

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      Don’t pay by credit card.

      This is bad advice for anyone with good credit and spending habits. A credit card with rewards is just free money if you’re responsible with it. I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.

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        Yep, the rich are rich because they borrow other peoples money. 0% free interest lines are about the best discount you can get on anything. I get to make the interest while you hold the loan? Sign me up! Siri, remind me in 11 months to pay off the X loan.

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          Yes, but you can also do a chargeback if the company you purchased from sold you a lousy product and isn’t being reasonable about returning it. If you had paid with cash, that cash is GONE.

          Each method has its pros and cons.

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            If you had paid with cash, that cash is GONE.

            not if I have a receipt.

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        I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.

        I’m not too familiar with credit cards, do you mean this in a literal money sense or something more complex, i.e. the value of rewards & money?

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          We pay for EVERYTHING on our credit card, shared account with my partner. 2% money back. Pay it off in full every month. Zero interest paid, thousands of monies back.

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        You pay with your data lol

        The reason why corpos been able to price gouge the peasants is particulaly to tp them having access to data this granular. Same reason why they want dynamic pricing schemes.

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      Anti monopoly and regulations against anti competitive practices are cornerstones of capitalism ensuring free and fair competition.
      So no, what we need is a return back to when these practices weren’t allowed, away from allowing these things more than ever as we do now.
      It’s easy to see Russia has become an oligarchy, why can’t we see it’s happening to us too?
      But we can’t dismantle capitalism altogether, without creating an even bigger monopoly problem, the monopoly being corrupt governments like the soviet union and their 5 year plan economy, that very obviously wasn’t a very good concept.

      Maybe that’s what you meant, I’d just not call it anti-capitalism, when regulations are for the purpose of making capitalism work better.
      So just “regulation” is better.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Get rid of the billionaire tech-lords. The ones that create the only new tech we’re allowed to have: fees, ads, and enshittification.

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    I’m a developer posting on Lemmy so maybe take this with a huge grain of salt but I think we need to focus less on STEM/finance and more on humanities education. Definitely in the United States but probably most of the world considering India and China focus on tech too.

    When I was learning to code (in the 90’s and 2000’s unless you count a 9 year old making BASIC do loops), my mentors basically all had majored in something besides computer science because there wasn’t necessarily even a computer science major available if your college didn’t have “Tech” in the name. It was a lot of hippies who spent their weekends making pottery and got into IT or software development almost by accident; it was a job to fund their non-lucrative hobby or passion.

    Basically, we lost something when being a programmer became a goal and not a way to reach some other goal. I’m not sure we can return to a time when it was tinkerers and hobbyists coming to the field with different backgrounds but more creatives should learn to code and more coders should be forced to make art.

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    All power to the users. And I do mean ALL. Complete control over cellular modems for one. Control over every little bit of hardware in the consumers hands.

    That includes warranty promises, that includes schematics, source code for firmware, everything. For all current, past and future devices.

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      You’re not wrong, but users should then be held accountable if they fuck up their device. For example, if you decide to force companies to allow unlocking of bootloaders, and the user decides to flash something that they shouldn’t, and the device bricks, whose fault is it?

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        Then they can just get it repaired, at a shop that has the flasher to re-flash the device. Cuz it’s open source

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          And pay a shop to do it? Do you realistically think the average person is gonna be willing to do that? I think it’s more likely they’ll complain to the phone company about their bricked phone.

          I also don’t know enough, but is a bricked phone “fixable”? If it is, the person could do it themselves. But that’s just one example. Other examples include installing unsafe OSes because social media said so. I don’t think the average person is tech savvy enough to give them this kind of freedom.

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      That just makes it even easier for Wall St to enshittify whatever comes after

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        Ugh I hate that you’re right. Until we figure out capitalism we’re fucked.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    I’ll be optimistic about technology when the last techbro is strangled with the entrails of the last angel investor

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    Anarcho-transhumanism, or ig more open source innovations unsullied by the profit motive would-be nice.