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'''Legally owner of servers, domains, technical system copyrights, or any infrastructure property ≠ ruler of the community.''' | '''Legally owner of servers, domains, technical system copyrights, or any infrastructure property ≠ ruler of the community.''' | ||
{{Quote|Secondly we dispute Cocopuff’s ownership claim as he is presenting it: he owned the server, and he still does and can use it however he wishes. What he does not own are the community (who we are currently consulting), the domain (this was under Tali’s remit), or the very large amount of unpaid labor put into the platform by tech and community volunteers, '''the reason it exists and has gone as far as it has.'''| | {{Quote|Secondly we dispute Cocopuff’s ownership claim as he is presenting it: he owned the server, and he still does and can use it however he wishes. What he does not own are the community (who we are currently consulting), the domain (this was under Tali’s remit), or the very large amount of unpaid labor put into the platform by tech and community volunteers, '''the reason it exists and has gone as far as it has.'''|[https://meta.skywiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_Comment/Skywiki_Community#Clarification_on_behalf_of_SkyWiki_Team Declaration of Justice])}} | ||
== Decision-Making Power or Final Adjudication == | == Decision-Making Power or Final Adjudication == | ||
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In the era when voting rights had property restrictions, those leftists who spoke for laborers always advocated for voting right equality, even conversely demanding dictatorship over elite capitalists (though the implementation was not necessarily stripping voting rights). Why does Laborer Sovereignty lead to such different results on a wiki? Because everyone lives in a state, spending roughly the same amount of time labor for it daily; otherwise they starve (elite capitalists, according to Laborer Sovereigntists, are the exception, reaping without laboring, and thus should be the object of dictatorship). In many states built to some degree on Laborer Sovereignty, labor is an obligation. A wiki is exactly the opposite: the micro-society is free to enter and exit, labor is unpaid, and no one is obligated to labor. Thus people contribute with vastly different levels of enthusiasm and persistence; a minority contributes or monopolizes the majority of labor. Thus Laborer Sovereignty, formally identical, produces different results because of the different natures of the state and the wiki. | In the era when voting rights had property restrictions, those leftists who spoke for laborers always advocated for voting right equality, even conversely demanding dictatorship over elite capitalists (though the implementation was not necessarily stripping voting rights). Why does Laborer Sovereignty lead to such different results on a wiki? Because everyone lives in a state, spending roughly the same amount of time labor for it daily; otherwise they starve (elite capitalists, according to Laborer Sovereigntists, are the exception, reaping without laboring, and thus should be the object of dictatorship). In many states built to some degree on Laborer Sovereignty, labor is an obligation. A wiki is exactly the opposite: the micro-society is free to enter and exit, labor is unpaid, and no one is obligated to labor. Thus people contribute with vastly different levels of enthusiasm and persistence; a minority contributes or monopolizes the majority of labor. Thus Laborer Sovereignty, formally identical, produces different results because of the different natures of the state and the wiki. | ||
However, even if these two Laborer Sovereignties are formally identical, they are not absolutely bound. Laborers may have the right to control the fruits of their labor; generally, they do not voluntarily abandon these rights and hand over their labor fruits to others, and since everything in state society is created by laborers, the state belongs to laborers. But on a wiki, this abandonment of rights is actually already happening. Copyright is the representative of labor ownership, and the CC license even explicitly states that this abandonment of rights is irrevocable. This reveals that '''contributors can decide to irrevocably authorize readers, transfer sovereignty to readers, and devote themselves to readers'''. In a state, workers refuse this "devotion"; in a wiki, contributors choose such devotion. Because in a state, the object of "devotion" is a minority, the devotees are the majority, and "devotion" reduces overall social welfare; in a wiki, the object of devotion is the majority, the devotees are the minority, and devotion increases overall social welfare. This devotion is a voluntary, selfless, noble act. At the same time, we have already seen the consequences of refusing this devotion. | However, even if these two Laborer Sovereignties are formally identical, they are not absolutely bound. Laborers may have the right to control the fruits of their labor; generally, they do not voluntarily abandon these rights and hand over their labor fruits to others, and since everything in state society is created by laborers, the state belongs to laborers. But on a wiki, this abandonment of rights is actually already happening. Copyright is the representative of labor ownership, and the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en CC license] even explicitly states that this abandonment of rights is irrevocable. This reveals that '''contributors can decide to irrevocably authorize readers, transfer sovereignty to readers, and devote themselves to readers'''. In a state, workers refuse this "devotion"; in a wiki, contributors choose such devotion. Because in a state, the object of "devotion" is a minority, the devotees are the majority, and "devotion" reduces overall social welfare; in a wiki, the object of devotion is the majority, the devotees are the minority, and devotion increases overall social welfare. This devotion is a voluntary, selfless, noble act. At the same time, we have already seen the consequences of refusing this devotion. | ||
Compared to Enthusiaists Sovereignty, Laborer Sovereignty is easier to think of for uprisers to abusive admins when they want to put forward their own democratic theory to counterattack admins' dictatorial/oligarchic nosense—especially when the uprisers are members of a Labor Party. The anti-abuse declaration of Skywiki quoted above echoes this theory ("''the very large amount of unpaid '''labor''' put into the platform by tech and community volunteers''"). Clarifying the potential consequences it may bring and providing an [[#Enthusiasts|alternative solution]] are important for these uprisers. | Compared to Enthusiaists Sovereignty, Laborer Sovereignty is easier to think of for uprisers to abusive admins when they want to put forward their own democratic theory to counterattack admins' dictatorial/oligarchic nosense—especially when the uprisers are members of a Labor Party. The anti-abuse declaration of Skywiki quoted above echoes this theory ("''the very large amount of unpaid '''labor''' put into the platform by tech and community volunteers''"). Clarifying the potential consequences it may bring and providing an [[#Enthusiasts|alternative solution]] are important for these uprisers. | ||