thevoidzero

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Sure, but even accounting for all that, what do you think would be the votes? 55% and 45% instead of 49 & 51?

Even if it was 60/40, the fact that 40% of people are actively supporting all this means it's too much.

Yes those problems are real, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the big big problem of a significant part of population that wanted/wants this even now.

Please stop using that logic. The people that voted is a representative sample of the population, done. Is you'd forced every one of voting she to vote then it probably would have been similar result. Because people that didn't want to go both will have their vote split randomly to candidates.

Honestly given these two choices, not voting means you're ok with either.

I don't think I could move without a job. I'm only moving because I couldn't find a job in my city and had to take this. The job market is really bad right now. This move is going to set me back in life by 5years except economically. I'd take something that'd pay 75% of this job is it was in my city.

This perfectly shows what's wrong in this country (and many part of the world).

People not paying the dues still get the benefits. Personally they save money by not being a member, while benefitting from those that do. But if enough people think like that then the benefits vanish. Our society is just propped up by the majority (sometimes just a few) that understand that and do things for the collective good. But the portion of people doing that is decreasing as we become strangers with people around us.

Exactly the same thing happening everywhere. People are individualistic, they see benefits if they're the only one doing something. But they don't see how if everyone does what they did, everyone will end up in a far worse situation.

I wanted to explain this with an example to some people and they just blew it off saying it doesn't make sense. The example is below:

If you had a button in front of you that gives you a million dollars if you press it (but only once in your life), but takes one dollar from everyone in the world. Now it might be very tempting to press that button. And if you do, you're +1million dollars. Problem is, if everyone else also press their button, then you're -8billion dollars. Even if 0.1 percent press that button you're negative. But if we give this button to everyone, people will press it. And we reach a cycle where even the people that didn't press it in the beginning will press it once they lose significant money because that's the way way to at least recover something for themselves. So everyone loses.

I feel like this is how a lot of business models are working right now, they give you that button, and ask you $1000 for that button. You take it, you make a million. The world lost 8 billion into the void. You recover your 1000 and a lot more. And then someone else does it, you're still positive. More and more people do it, the business is the only one making money. But as 1000s of people do it, you start to panic, then you get all the people that took advantage of it together, try to bribe the business so they stop selling the button to more people.

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I'm old school so I only have a few epubs. I want to conserve my battery. Epubs will make it last a day, videos and audios will drain it. And of course using Internet drains it too.

Ok, I'm confused. if schools are funded by property taxes, wouldn't they be more funded now because the property taxes are higher? Because the property taxes are increasing because the value of the house is increasing right? That doesn't increase the expenses, all the money should be way more than what it used to goto school in the past

That's actually what I think of as how the open source works. It's not that millions of people are working for you to have things all the time. It's just that instead of making something and letting it be lost in some hard drive they share it. If something has enough interest, use value, and passion from the creator then the work will continue.

Some programs with heavy industry use, or a passionate user base will be successful, but even the niche small programs are there so if someone wants to continue the work they can.

Vs the same little programs from companies that are not open source will be just lost, you can't get the source and continue even if you want to. Even they will discard the source, or the guy that worked on it will be gone and noone knows anything.

So appreciate open source, even if it doesn't work for all the cases, it is better because it can continue, the effort isn't lost. Open source licenses don't promise future maintenance, they are just available as they are