It says “Payments are made after exchanging existing money into electronic money with the help of an Exchange service, that is, a payment service provider for Taler.”

Do they say anywhere who that payment service provider is? And are there options for who to use?

What is the relationship of fiat currency to tokens? is it €1:1 token?

lol I thought this was a guerrilla IT warfare post where you snuck in and did it, but you actually did it with permission… 😂

That does all sound much more equitable. But don’t you just end up with a different 1% controlling everything, as per every communist state in the past? And isn’t that because not everyone is a worker - you have to have the admin layer at the top, who are deciding what is ‘best for society’, and they can (and due to human nature usually do) most decide what is best for themselves.

What you describe sounds MUCH better for the majority of people - but I worry about the unaccountability of the ruling admin layer.

Does communism/socialism have rules for mitigating that (which haven’t been followed by communist states, but could be)?

see, this is the problem - I’ve avoided thinking about politics forever, and now I’m not sure about the main concepts 😂

I’ve always equated high taxes with socialism - so long as those taxes go towards services and redistribution of wealth.

OK - so what *is *socialism? (the main tenets)

very interesting points!

I’ve just started a non-profit (to try to reduce/undermine surveillance capitalism) - and we’ll probably build software along the way. That is entrepreneurship, but not profit focused. However, we would need to be funded and paid to make it work.

How should I frame this in your way of thinking?

I was just in Denmark recently and it seems like that’s what they have: a capitalist society but regulated by very socialist policies like (really) high taxes. Makes sense to me - I’m probably just not using the right terminology.

They’re all ‘one-party states’ aren’t they?

Opposite of democracy… so whether they work well economically is irrelevant, since you’re relying on the party not to become totalitarian. 😬

Socialism yes. I’ve always thought that capitalism regulated with socialist policies is the way forward. That way you can still encourage entrepreneurs to get going.

But we’re still left with the r > g problem (money attracts more money).

Communism is the extreme end of socialism isn’t it? And I’ve always thought that extremes never work. Extremism is a circle…

I’m open to being educated on this though…

Serious question: has communism ever been proved to work at scale? (not communist regimes, the communist ideology)

Copying some HTML and CSS code into the llm and saying “change it to make it do xxxxxxx”

Website building

According to Ray Dalio, you’re right - that is what it will take: revolution or a major war https://youtu.be/BB2r_eOjsPw

How about (instead of communism) aiming for an economy made up predominantly of co-operatives, like in the Basque country in Spain? The Mondragon federation of co-ops.

That way money is distruted quite evenly but you don’t have to get into the whole politics thing.