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Originally Posted by BlackMalachite
...human nature goes against the very concept of socialism, communism, etc.
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I wouldn’t say that socialist principles are against human nature. Quite the opposite, in fact. Just look at the massive wave of socialized tech that has emerged in the last 7 years.
Wired published a feature about it way back in 2009 titled,
The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online. It mentions several great examples of what John Barlow called, “dot-communism” where thousands of users join their collaborative efforts for the empowerment of society rather than for profit. But the participatory numbers it cites have grown exponentially in the years since the article was published.
Here are some more recent stats on the state of this global collectivism:
- Creative Commons reached a new record with 1.1 billion licensed works in 2016
- The Linux Kernel took an estimated 6,193 years of effort (COCOMO model) starting with its first commit in February 2002 ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago.
- 234 million Redditors are living in their parents' basements
- LibreOffice has over 100 million users
- 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
- 10 billion photos on Flickr are contributed and tagged with categories, labels, and keywords
- Wikipedia presently features 40 million articles in 293 languages resulting from the collaborative efforts of over 29 million users
The web is the new socialism.