this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
1253 points (84.5% liked)

Linux

48083 readers
800 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ConfusedLlama@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's assuming that all workers have good intentions and consider the good of all humans before power.

Well, surprise! Workers are humans. And we have seen many times what happens when uncontrolled power has been given to any human group or individual humans.

There should be no power to the government. Only management positions. And those management positions need to be open to all people with abilities regarding those management positions.

Of course this discussion in this form is an oversimplification (e.g. no mention of whether/how to run a police force, a judiciary, or a military), but the point is that not only a "government being run by workers" wouldn't solve any problem, it would introduce even more, in my opinion. It's just as bad as effectively letting the corporations or rich people run the government. Looks at the US

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

There should be no power to the government. Only management positions. And those management positions need to be open to all people with abilities regarding those management positions.

Yo. You just described a worker run government.