If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
@datagrok You know, my dream was always to research and invent something that could help people or at least just be cool.
Instead of this I have to get up, haul my ass for two hours to work, sit a day and haul two hours back just to get my cut so I don't starve this month.
@drequivalent there are sooo many of us in the same situation. the resulting research and inventions and collaborative feats of engineering if we could work on what inspired us to do this in the first place would blow people's miiiinds
