"people won't work for the benefit of others and voluntary taxation doesn't work"
you are here on a rapidly expanding federated network of servers ran voluntarily at the admins' expense, supported by people's goodwill, intellect and donations
@Cocoron Digital goods have different economics, but your point is very well-known! 👍✅
@Wikisteff "Digital goods" still need labour to make them, and material resources (money) to run them.
@Cocoron Of course. But for a typical digital good like an iPhone app or YouTube video, the marginal cost of production is around $0.0008 per download or view in 2016.
The median game (which is mobile) costs around $400k to produce.
The most popular game ever, Candy Crush Saga, moved 500M copies.
So it costs at most twice the cost of production to give every person who wants a copy one worldwide.
@Cocoron This differs from physical goods, which have marginal costs of production that generally decline to some floor per unit, before increasing again.
That's all I meant.
@Cocoron will it work outside? can schools and hospitals work this way? I am living in a country where a lot of society's functions are run by volunteers, but I still see need for tax system.
Also, I hate it when people praise this blackmailing coercion mindset.
I mean capitalism DO make people work for the benefit of others (the owners). So what they really say is, until they're treating me of starvation, I won't produce anything.
Well, guess what, people already do make things because they like doing so, not because someone told them they won't have food in their plate if they didn't.
@Cocoron + Linux, OpenBSD, etc. etc. - though yes, the internet services model is a bit immune to a sort of free model of operation. Anything that's a company employing people either has a VC / angel / IPO / something. They sell ads, they sell your data, they sell subscriptions, gold accounts and so on.