I think it is more important to have a non-commercial tag/license added.

_{Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)}

It isn’t loading for me.

Can’t all vpns do this though?

Yeah I think so. If you are talking about the evolution of trust one.

Yeah I totally agree. I’m trying my best to integrate these things into my life today.

Someone else on this thread mentioned parallel structures and that is probably what is going to be needed.

Side topic, how did you get your username to do that?

Edit: It was @Cowbee@lemmy.ml

Yeah but that doesn’t get rid of the fact that the information it self is still easily reproducible. What you are saying is that there still needs to be effort in curating information, but you aren’t saying that there is a cost of reproducing information.

I think that we do live in a society where information is not scarce because the ease of replicating any information has increased significantly.

Yeah my mistake. I’m gonna fix the title.

Some people say that if we lived in a post-scarcity society we would move on from capitalism. I am pointing that out as not true since there is an aspect of our lives that is already post-scarcity yet we still use the same capitalist system to distribute that information.

Also post-scarcity doesn’t mean everyone has sufficient and easy access it means that everything can be produced in great abundance.

Edit: would to wouldn’t; Most to Some

Edit 2: Rephrased some words so that my meaning comes across better.

I specifically said we are in a post-scarcity information society. I didn’t say everything is post-scarcity.

@wikibot@lemmy.world

Yeah I agree that should be the ideal however, like you have said, it hasn’t ever really been implemented yet.

There are a bunch of groups around the world that follow similar anarchist principles, like Rojava, Zapatistas, or even Temporary autonomous zones, but all of them have some unofficial/hidden/weak form of organizer that can be targeted by people with the right resources.

My point being that since systems tend to sustain themselves if we don’t start building systems that can function without the need of an organizer or something of a similar sort then there will still be that place where the power can be misused.

or anarchy (more like anarcho communist probably).

I’ve come to a similar conclusion, however I still have some hold ups on how anarchism currently being implemented across the world.

It still relies on organizers and extra attention being diverted to certain individuals who give an agenda for what needs to be done next. This allows co-opting these movements to be a lot easier than if we could work past that.

I think there is also a subset of US culture that thinks that STEM is the only “real” academic group of fields worth pursuing, and knowledge in liberal arts is pointless -> not contributing to society -> not a meaningful part of the meritocracy.

Yeah I agree with this quite a bit.

That’s fair.

Well the way I interpret it is that people who demonstrate their ability are put into a position where they are rewarded more relative to their peers and/or have control over what their peers do.

So for example if I was a engineer and based on some metric was considered highly valuable then I would be paid more than other engineers and I would be put into a position where I can give other engineers directions on what needs to be done.

I don’t think the idea of meritocracy only lives in the U.S.

which is where I think a lot of people who advocate for a more meritocracy-based society stand.

Why do you think this is?

What do you mean by doesn’t last long? Also if the society was a complete meritocracy what accountability would the people have?

Ok, I just wanted to make sure if that is what you were saying.