I used to always use Minecrat for this. Sure, they can’t do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.
I say “used to” because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.
(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that’s all one needs to know.)
Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.
Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it’s free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It’s a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).
Well the baker, knowing that everyone has twice as much money, puts his prices up because he knows the market can bear it. That’s the way I reason it.
The good news is this simply doesn’t happen (in civilized modern countries).
People with more money don’t buy twice as much bread, they buy other things.
The bread maker is still competing with milk producers and video game makers and artists.
You can read about price elasticity for more details (and to not just take my word for it.)
Highly inelastic goods (water, transportation, eggs) are the most likely to have runaway price increases.
But civilized countries already have public options to supply these items at cost :public water, public transport, food stamps.
This means we already have the necessary buffers against any impact by UBI. Any provider of an inelastic good who raises their price too far loses business to the public option.
Schwinn and Ferrari will all see slightly more sales with UBI as a few people use their additional income to purchase a bicycle or a supercar, but the bus lines must still run to keep them honest.
The risk is minimal because we already know what public consumption of these goods looks like, when they’re free or heavily subsidized, in each civilized country.
Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?
When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.
Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.
As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.
I bought a “fixer-upper” recently, so I fill most days off with minor home repair projects. I’m using it as an excuse to build a decent little project workbench, though.
Thank you! You’re doing Lliira’s work!
Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
Obviously I don’t have any examples here.
I’m sorry if I got anyone’s hope’s up
I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.
Nothing anotger fireball won’t solve…
the low rollers having been filtered out by dart traps, lucky kobolds, etc.
True. That’s mage survivor bias, right there.
Voiding all IP law would cause a huge loss in the creative community.
I agree. I wouldn’t be in favor of “burn it down” if I thought we could negotiate better terms with our current IP oligarchs.
If people can no longer pay their bills by creating then they stop creating and work.
I’ll still be available to do creative work. It wouldn’t change my current work-for-hire efforts.
Very little valuable IP is held by actual creators, today.
Why dump years and your heart and soul into a great book just to have it distributed for free and be poor.
Are you an actual published creator, or a temporarily embarrassed future billionaire? Is there a version of success for you that isn’t just selling to a big IP company to get enough money to retire? That’s what it looks like, to me. The peak of my possible success would be to write something that threatens/tempts the big IP holders enough to force them to buy me out. If I don’t take the buy out, they eventually bury my thing with their advertising power.
I don’t really disagree with you. I’m actually in favor of keeping and fixing IP laws, if that’s possible.
But I believe the IP laws we have now only serve our billionaire employers. So, as a creator, I won’t fight to keep our current IP laws.
Your utopia is every creator’s nightmare.
I didn’t say “utopia”. We need IP laws. But since we continue to let Disney (and other mega corporations) dictate the entire terms of engagement - we need to bring “burning the whole thing down and starting over” into the list of options under consideration. It’s the only way to bring Disney back to the bargaining table, at minimum.
Edit: A more practical approach would be to disolve every company that has engaged in an illegal merger (most large US companies). But I think that’s actually harder to accomplish, today, than voiding all IP law. It’s a better option, if we can swing it. The necessary laws are already on the books, they’re simply un-enforced.
Jeff Bezos never smashed the window on my car to steal my speakers,
True.
he doesnt come out vandalising public transport or parks and he isnt the reason my wife doesnt feel safe walking around at night.
If we could even comprehend the scale of his unpaid taxes, or their impact on our parks, we might discuss this at length…
Movie theaters are really expensive, so I’m not paying attention to what Hollywood is making right now.
So the first few are classic math definitions for 0, 1, and 2.
After that I got bored.
- Have you also experienced this worsening of DuckDuckGo?
Yes.
- Which other more privacy-respecting alternatives do you recommend?
I’m in the same boat. I’ll be trying out these answers.
Also doesn’t the GPL use IP law for enforcement of copy left?
That’s very probably Jack Dorsey’s motive in this. Briefly void all IP law, then restore it in a messy way that leaves everything owned by his lawyers.
I’ve created lots of things. The moment I finish creating it, I sign over my IP rights in exchange for money for food, and never have a right to it again.
Without IP law, the thing I created would at least be in the commons where I can still legally use it.
(I agree with your point, some IP law could be better than none. But I’ll assert that a total void of all IP law would be better than what we have now.
And we need to theaten to void it all, to get the current rights holders to negotiate. Frankly, I don’t think they will. I think we need to void all IP law and then encourage the next generation to create some new IP law after we starve our current billionaires.)
(All this is in spite of my objection to being on the same side of any argument with Jack Dorsey. I have no illusion that his motives are pro-social.)
what stops them from replicating my thing with more money and resources?
That’s what happens today, anyway. Most of us cannot afford the lawyers to make the law work for us.
In contrast, if we re-use an innovation the billionaires have purchased, we go to jail.
The surprisingly deep copy of Balatro in “Dave the Diver” is pretty good.
Vibrant ecologies have diversity. Fully unified government isnt diverse, and would be bad for at least some people. I hope all of our governments suck less, but still have each-other to compete with.