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Social Dividend History
There are many forms of basic income that you can talk about for hours on vocal about, but the version I am talking about actually has its roots in socialist thought. There is a form of basic income that can be referred to as a social dividend that is based on publicly owned enterprises. According to Wikipedia, a social dividend is "the return on the capital assets and natural resources owned by society in a socialist economy. ". How a social dividend differs from traditional basic income is that social dividend directly implies and relates to social ownership of productive assets. It also implies these socially owned assets are to be the source of the income while other forms of basic income may get funding from other sources. This idea of a social dividend is considered by many to be in line with Karl Marx's critique of capitalism. One of the biggest problems Karl Marx had with capitalism is that the surplus value earned by society is usually only distributed among a small elite - usually a small number of capitalists and private shareholders that get all of the benefit from the extra money in society. According to Marx, surplus generated by social means of production should be appropriated by all members of society. As described by James Yunker in 1977 in the journal Annals of Public and Cooperate Economics: "It is abundantly clear from the writings of the founder of scientific socialism, Karl Marx, that he viewed the distribution of property income under capitalism as morally reprehensible. To Marx, property return must be identified with 'surplus labor value', namely the excess of total labor value over the total wage bill under conditions of a subsistence individual wage. This surplus value is distributed over a small minority of owning capitalists. Although the value is created by labor and is therefore the legitimate property of labor, the capitalists are able to extort it from the proletariat by virtue of their ownership of the capital instruments of production...Nevertheless, while Marx employed the surplus labor value theory to undermine the moral foundations of capitalism, it was, in his view, neither to be the instrumentality of capitalist collapse, nor was it the primary reason for the desirability of the abrogation of capitalism...Surplus value was seen as providing the fuel for the cyclical engine and therefore as the fundamental cause of the impending dissolution of capitalism."
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in The Swamp
Ubuntu Linux Distro
Our modern world seems to be filled with computers that are powered by three different operating systems: Windows, Mac, and Linux. One is developed by the corporate giant Microsoft, one is created by the tech company Apple, and the last one is an open-source operating system with distributions created by various different companies & organizations. Linux is one of the few operating systems on the market someone can get for free and there are various different distributions that someone can get in order to do work with their computer. The one I am talking about today is named after the Nguni Bantu term for "humanity". It is called Ubuntu.
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
Local Basic Income Explained
Universal basic income, or UBI for short, is a topic that constantly comes up in modern political discourse. What is it? Well, according to investopedia, "Universal basic income (UBI) is a government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly. The goals of a basic income system are to alleviate poverty and replace other need-based social programs that potentially require greater bureaucratic involvement". The idea of a basic income for all members of society goes back for centuries, even when it comes to recorded history. One of the most well-known works to include the idea of a UBI for members of society is the book Utopia written by 16th century English philosopher Thomas More. Many proposal vary in size and a lot of UBI programs are designed to work on the country or multinational level, which makes the program and attempts to calculate how much money is needed for each citizen somewhat difficult. However, there are some who suggest that UBI might work better if it is calculated on a more localized level to adjust for a local population's needs. That is where the concept of local basic income comes in. This form of UBI is focused around providing income for citizens on a level smaller than a nation or multinational union, giving people money on a village, city, distinct, province, or state-level. Village, city, or state officials decide how the UBI is calculated and decide how to provide resources to members of their community.
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in Humans
Platform as a Service History
PaaS, or platform as a service to use the full name, is a type of cloud computing. In fact, it is one of three types of cloud computing: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. PaaS is a type of cloud computing that, according to Wikipedia, "allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing platform and one or more applications, without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching the application(s); and to allow developers to create, develop, and package such software bundles." Basically, infrastructure is provided over the internet that allows you to build and maintain applications for yourself or whatever company you are designing the application for. There are three well-known ways for cloud computing service providers to give their customers a PaaS service:
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
History of Software as a Service Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is seen as an interesting new emerging technology, but cloud computing has actually been around for decades in the form of software-as-a-service or SaaS for short. Now, SaaS is a form of software licensing and delivery where software is centrally hosted over the internet for others to use and usually licensed on a subscription basis. As techradar.com puts it in an article written by Brian Turner, “SaaS, is a cloud-based service where instead of downloading software your desktop PC or business network to run and update, you instead access an application via an internet browser. The software application could be anything from office software to unified communications among a wide range of other business apps that are available.”
By Tyler McFadden4 years ago in 01
