2026-05-07 13:22 UTC
@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog @PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems
The propaganda that pretends socialism is just state capitalism and that the wealthy truly earned their wealth runs deep. People, especially software people into FOSS, are primed to buy into the propagandist idea that socialism means people aren't actually entitled to compensation for their labor.
The LLM slots in nicely to this take on economics since its whole conceit rests on entitlement to the uncompensated and unattributed labor of others.
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@sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog 2026-05-07 13:33
@kwazekwaze@mastodon.social @PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems ROFL: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/12/gpid-d12.html https://ai.wsws.org/en
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@chloechloechloe@musician.social 2026-05-08 04:40
@kwazekwaze@mastodon.social @sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog @PallasRiot@social.treehouse.systems That may be true but to be fair FOSS wasn't intended to deter commercial /free/ software. 'Free as in Freedom* not "free beer"'. However, even if this motto is understood the culture of open source development is not nearly defensive as it could be. That this laxity effects morale and confuses ideological orientation toward something false or propagandist is a good point. * Correction: "Free speech" not freedom