Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
by worldsayshi on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:15AM
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Solving this properly probably means solving how to pay for open source. I think it needs a somewhat complex scheme of pooling money together into an ad-hoc fund like entity and distributing it to service providers by someone elected for the task.
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If only society had a structure like that, for taking care of things that need to be done for the benefit of everyone.
Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
by worldsayshi on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @07:13PM
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I think it's a very different problem than what welfare usually solves for us. Paying a doctor to treat patients is different from paying someone to build an MRI machine. We don't pay individual engineers there.
So I don't think solving such complex problems within a welfare system is a solved problem at all.
In Sweden we pride ourselves in health care for everyone. But we are quite bad at buying software systems for our welfare institutions.