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To diversity? Hell yes, to a point. All the eggs in one basket is not a good business model, unless you make baskets.

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Or it's a simple equation... people use FOSS when it is comparable to paid alternatives or close enough that the price differential is worth it.

#LibreOffice still sucks ass.

I hope the #fediverse or better yet the #freeverse takes over, but I think Meta's 100m users are going to clobber it.

I think I would try to use Minds.com more if the site worked well and had consistent interface standards.

Herd problem: a society based on earning money

Herd solution: give away free money, making everything more expensive

Lots of people do not know what a #mixedeconomy and #marketsocialism are.

https://www.amerika.org/politics/mixed-economy/

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Almost all politics is backward looking. We are still in the 1830s.

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Technically this solves the problem, for some definitions of "solve" and "the problem."

I want freedom from:

* Diversity

* Herd rule

* Taxes

* Urban blight

* Morons

Can they grant that?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12315279/Kevin-Spacey-exploited-enormous-power-imbalance-four-victims-make-feel-worthless-Hollywood-stars-sex-assault-trail-hears.html

And we get into academia-level nonsense.

If you are in a gay bar... someone might grab your junk.

Oh fucking well. Grow up and move on.