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They do realize we could just make our own electronics right?
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Genuine question: how would a semiconductor fab be build in anarchist ideologies?
Same way it's done now, only with the profit staying with the workers. Anti-capitalism is not anti-infrastructure or anti-technology or even anti-commerce. It's just anti-private-ownership of the above.
I know, that's why I asked how would it be build under anarchism, not under anti-capitalism.
My question was really how could something as logistically complex as a semiconductor fab be build without some organization to coordinate it.
But as @BeatL@pawb.social said if anarchism = no unjust hierarchy then that is no problem. As there is still a organization coordinating things just not an unjust one?
I admit I'm not very knowledgeable about anarchism.
I don't really associate anarchism with the global supply chains necessary to build and run a semiconductor fab. But I suppose I am mistaken then?
Good specs and motivated people at the right place... As we do now in high complexity IT environments. The major struggle we got in production are people being unmotivated, as it should in this system. But if you only have people doing it for the love systems would be far different.
A common misconception is that we need hierarchy to handle complexity. The best way to handle complexity is by increasing the amount of decision makers. Just look at how the open source community can compete with professional software companies despite not having any hierarchy,
The hierarchy is not set in stone, but I wouldn't say there isn't one. Otherwise, anyone could merge anything into any repo. And yes, not one repo needs to be "the official" one, but they de facto are, until some people decide to split out for some reason.
So I don't see it as a lack of a hierarchy, more as a consensual hierarchy similar in some ways to a democracy. But hey I may be completely off!
Not sure if that counts since anyone can fork a project.
https://anarchistfaq.org/
Organization != domination hierarchy
and without the enslavement.
cc @themightycat@ani.social
easy, anarchy is no unjust hierarchy. So to convert X to anarchy, you remove the subordination principe. If the task need a boss, make it temporary and rotate often. Share knowledge and ideas. Make sure everybody is having the best time it could under the conditions we are in.
Sure you can be a filthy filthy radical and open source the machines, vulgarise the jobs and how to use the tools. Decorate the wall with slogans like "justice for all". Bring diverse peoples to the fab and see solutions to problems you never accounted for emerge. See peoples from around the world challenges themselves to use less and less chemicals and/or reuse them.
If you want to check, open source can cover hardware. A famous one is Prusa (3d printer).