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The basic income is attractive: it's individually empowering, it crosses ideological borders, it's a technocrat's dream... but it would have terrible social and moral consequences: xenophobia, inequality, and a rise in the power of Big Businesses. 
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Las Indias want to create spaces to contribute and collaborate, to co-produce with more people, and to provide an integral education for a good life.
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Few ideas have been as powerful and subversive as abundance. For thousands of years, we humans have projected our desires onto it, we’ve been inspired by it to transform our forms of organizing, and we’ve raised it as the banner of a better future. Free food, the end of labor forced by need, and the end of conflicts and violence due to scarcity have been the image of the world that humans deserve to inhabit for hundreds of generations.
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The next revolution will come from space. The P2P aerospace revolution will incorporate hundreds of thousands of citizens into space exploration and will go far beyond what any state has been able to do so far. The first human settlers of new planets will be makers.
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I think we might eventually reach a society of abundance. I hope we do. Richard Stallman, FSF Las Indias and other like them, will profoundly change the
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As much as the official discourse would like it to be, the debate on intellectual property is not about whether authors or inventors would earn the same thing or more if this legal monopoly was abolished. The question is whether we need rents from a monopoly that only exists thanks to legislation for innovation to exist and whether more innovation is created with protection from intellectual property or without it.
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“Federation issues” may look like a “bug”, but they are really the result of an agreement, an implicit contract: to be part of a conversation on another node, I first have to have received the trust of someone who is taking part in it.
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