- Plurality Books p.89
Communities form around common interests, freely leverage each otherās work, scrutinize contributions through unpaid maintainers, and āforkā projects into parallel versions when there are incompatible differences.
Basic income is needed for public goods maintainers. basic income is needed so that the āunpaid maintainersā donāt die, and I wonder if this is basically an application of constraint theory, where it is optimal not to make utilization rate 100%, and thus the activities of idle human resources that inevitably arise.
nishio @tokoroten I think you mentioned before that there is not a steady demand for a steady amount of work for engineers in your company. From a constraint theory point of view, it is not optimal to aim for 100% utilization, but if you reserve more space, you can create playing space and use it for public goods (i.e. goods or services such as parks or highways) type projects. I thought it might be a good idea.
tokoroten I think itās from my material. The perception is that in the past, deployment costs were ridiculously high, so outsourcing because there was a wave of development to reduce the number of deployments. So, as a result of this being in the cloud, we are building a lot of small software and deploying it at any time, the uptime wave disappears, and we go directly to hiring
nishio Ah, I see. Thatās half of what I was looking for. Didnāt we also talk about DLC and stuff from game companies? Ah, I see. Thatās half of what I was looking for. Didnāt we also talk about DLC and stuff from video game companies?
nishio But if the wave of operations is gone, then I canāt use who has available hands to invest in public goods as I originally thoughtā¦ tokoroten Iām wondering if itās possible to shove newcomer training for IT companies into public goods investment. nishio Hmmm, thatās exactly the kind of patch that society needs, small but diverse, so itās hard to build a stable educational curriculum and a lot of work on the mentorās sideā¦ It would be easier if they were the ones who could just throw it all out there with āfind the needs yourself and build a project of a reasonable sizeā¦ā
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