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Re:The Ideal Economy by sokoloff on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:44AM (#28895457)
Are you building hobby things for your entertainment (which I do as well) or building things which make society advance and which others benefit from?

It’s the loss of incentives for the latter that concern me.

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Re:The Ideal Economy by marginalia_nu on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:55AM (#28895510)
Well, both. I'm building and running this: https://search.marginalia.nu/

Paid the server out of pocket, built the code all by myself.

I do take donations that currently just about cover the running costs, but at this surplus it will take me something like 30 years to get back the hardware investment (assuming no hardware fails in the interim and running costs don't increase).

Don't take this as complaining, it's just a statement of facts. I'm incredibly grateful that so many people are supporting it.

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