• treefrog@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    this is like playing poker with someone and blaming the game when they exploit their position as dealer to slip themself an ace off the bottom of the deck.

    that said, i partially agree. the systems shouldn’t encourage greed or authoritarianism. we need a middle way and a system that accounts for peoples’ less wholesome tendencies and doesn’t reward them while encouraging wholesome behavior like sharing and generosity.

    burning man culture does an interesting job of this with decommodification and gifting principles.

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      1 year ago

      I’m suspicious of burning man culture. It’s not a completely isolated example and there is too much influence that could leak from/to external society for it to be a real test case. I am not saying it wouldn’t work, just that it’s current successes have been biased.

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        1 year ago

        i hear you. i have a lot of close friends that are super into the scene though and they’re the most generous people i know.

        i don’t get to go myself often (talking about regional burns, the big burn doesn’t interest me). I’m an introvert that’s sensitive to noise and burns aren’t environments where i can recharge easily.