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Re:Ursula Le Guin Books on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:40AM (#27094044)
Honestly sounds like an extreme form of communism.

One of the benefits of hierarchy is that decision comes with personal responsibility (skin in the game?). Diluting all responsibility onto the whole population mean no accountability and shadow power structures.

Re:Ursula Le Guin Books on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:30AM (#27093998)
Indeed, due to the extreme conditions, social pressure and conditioning since a young age, they were free in name only.
Re:Ursula Le Guin Books on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:29PM (#27089116)
Honestly I disagree they had anarchism. Seemed they had a sort of collectivism where they replaced some authority with "computers that hand out assignments" and pseudo-authority from the capital (Anares? I forgot).

It looked like an odd system where presumably you were free but conditions were so hars and social pressure so strong that you did what was required. Sweden in space desert.

Too much politics is the stuff that gets one fired. After a few iterations the calibration might be reached.
You are missing agency.

May try a retro computing project. Restore you old PC, code something in basic languages, on a very low powered machine. Exclude any potential revenue ideas from what you are doing.

Re:Buying a PC with Dell: My journey into hell on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:56PM (#26927810)
How this got on the front page is a mistery.

Person orders wrong Dell, wastes Dell's time with support, a motherboard replacement (and a refund?).

All as a business expense (who want to pay taxes, right?)

The proceeds to lyric about it in 50 tweets.