So @aral@mastodon.ar.al what do you prefer? A ...
So @aral@mastodon.ar.al what do you prefer? A non profit that get some structural subsidies (without any obligations) from compagnies that Allow said non profit to implement open-source solutions for civil society, NGO’s and what not or a non profit, very pure, very perfect, without money or funds to implement anything at all, a non profit unable to do its mission but pure?
That’s your MVP it seems and I don’t think it’s sustainable neither realistic, the freaking world is what it is, how are we going to change it?
By screaming at the impurity of others and their minimal lack of integrity, even if that sends them to being unable to operate? (but stay pure) is this how we’re going to win this battle? By finding all the impurities out there, all the hybrid choices, all the in-betweens and shot them in the head for being impure? And then what? What’s next? What’s the end goal here? What’s the purpose?
I’d rather get funds from companies and divest this money from big corporations and invest it in civilization society autonomy, digitization and ethical business than decimating the ecosystem for it being unpure and not 100% in line with your one and holy thinking.
In short this, is precisely why the global left is unable to win any battles since 20 years… We’re dogmatic, purists, cultists about our own certainties, to the point we turn against those acting for the sake of their impurity, dismissing their work, their past, their history for their unpure present choices… How far do you want to go? Alone or together?
How do we educate the masses to reach a similar understanding about the multi faceted problems we’re having because of the choices made in the recent past, How do share this understanding so that, as a collective of people, we can in respect of everyone’s thinking and opinions move collectively to a safer place as societies?
I don’t think it’s by hiting at those trying their way out to move forward. And let me be clear, I read you since years, I follow you on different networks, I was inspired by you joining Diem and your tweets and blog post helped shape the choices I have made at a personal level for so ma y things regarding technology but now it’s 2019, the world is a constant war, isn’t there another path than confrontation & wars to move forward?
I don’t speak about this often but I feel concerned and I work in a place that wants to do good (but is funded by the region, some compagnies that I wish were different) what should I do? Also abandon my work where I can help women and minorities to claim their ownership, their data, their infrastructure because the non profit I work for is partially getting subsidies from companies that could be criticized or that seem in opposition with our non profit mission? Is that the left proposal? Become so pure that you loose everything but revered by your peers for having sacrificed everything for the sake of 100% integrity ?
I’d rather work for a non profit determinedly to work under the hood and shape the infrastructure of tomorrow’s even if the money comes from compagnies (well obviously not total, shell or Facebook) but the same logic can be applied if your way of reasoning was to be applied to different scenarios… What would you do?
And why can you make the choices you can make? What privileges allow you to make them?
What are you going to tell to a women trying to launch her business (her main living source) by using whatever “free tools” she can get to advance her goals, because she doesn’t know or doesn’t have the know-how to make the same choice but staying fully autonomous and free from the big companies? What are you going to tell her? That her approach is wrong or are you going to try to grasp the moment where you will be able to help her reach the same goals but with open source tools, with a infrastructure she owns and control and that will be the base to run her business?
Between the two I’ll gladly help instead of rant, we need builders, not ranters.
