On 02.09.25 16:36, Paul Boddie wrote:
On 2025-09-02 13:07, P.B. wrote:
I wasn't too lazy to web-search, but especially these days I believe
it's still better to ask /people who know and care/ to get reliable
information.
Sorry if it came across as an accusation of laziness!
Oh, that read harder than I meant it. No accusation feeling received :)
Just a short comment on "why I didn't search that much before asking".
On purpose :D
Well, I find it very true what you write...
*sigh*
Somehow it may be time to find fundamentally different ways than "money
as we know it" to run the world's show(s). And no, I'm not talking
crypto or anything else linked to the same idea of "lack of plenty =
wealth" ;)
Yes, I cannot provide a short answer to the mentioned (and valid)
challenges of "fund distribution and fairness and meaningfulness
thereof" - yet, I still believe "WE" (the people; the public; whoever
that is :P) - shall be able to distribute "credit" to the ones whom we
are grateful for providing us with proper tech (and other things).
We should come up with a credit system that doesn't rely on being scarce
and limited:
The beauty of software is that "sharing makes it more".
Now with "banks" being "any company that offer apps that shove numbers
around on servers and display on your phone" - given enough
"believe/trust" by the people that those numbers may be converted into
"real" money?
And "real money" being nothing more than "paper and metalware in
different colors and sizes" that is believed to be worth something...
(which, btw "says who?")
Sure this is far far out from where I started my thread, but what if
"money as we know it" has reached it's end-of-life?
Looking at "gold price chart from 1720 to 2025", I see a pattern...
https://investinghaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/gold_price_chart_100_years.jpg
(If that were a graph in my server-monitoring, I'd be /very/ alarmed -
and call for a replacement of whatever is necessary - pretty soon.)
So I'm not sure if we should continue trying to "follow" it?
Rather use our imagination and come up with something completely different?
Because FOSS (and other not-well-paid activities and jobs) /have/
tremendous value - but don't fit the conventional "business models" and
payment-psychology.
How can humankind give proper CREDIT to the ones doing good and
important things?
Better income for Kindergardeners or Money-Controllers?
;)
all the best!
P.
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