On spirituality and business

1We don't have to choose between BSD and GPL

We can choose both.

Why not all of them?

We can say "The project is licensed under these licenses, at your choice: BSD/MIT/X11/ISC/MPL/Apache2/GPL/LGPL/AGPL"

BSD does not forbid adding restrictions.

I choose BSD/MIT/Apache2 because I want humans to flourish, not companies to suffer.

I choose the licenses that are based on love, not on hatred.

People choose GPL because they hate capitalism first, and they want humankind to benefit second. I used to hate capitalism, but now I see that it is neutral, and the problem is humans, not systems. If a company freeloads on an open-source project, people can choose to not buy from the company.

2Taxation

Spirit of corporate taxation laws:

• Personal expenses are not corporate expenses.

3What

Why does the company retain most of its profits? To create buffer. Reinvest?

I want a company without employees. Everyone is paid according to their impact? Everyone bids?

If money should not be given to those who do not know what to do with it, then either employees should be paid less or nobody should be employees (everybody should be one-person businesses instead).

If profit is theft, then loss is also theft. If a profiting employer is fleecing its employees, then a losing employer is being fleeced by its employees.

We are not customer-driven because customers can be immoral.

We are self-driven.

We want to be God-driven, but we don't know how to be sure that it's God.

Employers trust God more than employees do?

Adam Smith's theorem? Voluntary trade improves everyone's satisfaction / satisfied wants. But what about drug users? Do they voluntarily trade their hard-earned money for harmful drugs?

Business = intrinsic motivation * distribution channel?

What https://wanderingaimfully.com/start-a-business/

Write principles, start my own businesses. Trust God. A businessperson trusts God more than an employee does. In risk is God.

Avoid looking down on old-school capitalists. Do not feel holier than others.

No employment. No command. No power asymmetry.

Employment is immoral, but most people prefer certain income, stability, and low risk appetite, only want to master a narrow range of things. Or it's just that sometimes employment is necessary because control?

Nature provides more than a social safety net can ever provide: A fertile land to live on forever.

Accounting should be truthful. If truth is not possible, then it should be pessimistic. Debts and expenses are certain. Assets and incomes are uncertain.

4Ethical advertising

We inform, not manipulate.

No discounts. No promotions.

5Computational complexity and intellectual property

The intended definition of intellectual property is something hard enough to compute/create/come up with.

Patents, copyrights, and intellectual properties hamper progress.

If ideas are planted in our minds by spirits, then nobody has the right to claim authorship?

An insurance company can only profit by making the average person lose. It's cheap when you're young and you don't need it. It's too expensive when you're old and you need it.

The insurance company makes the book so it has house advantage. Search "actuarial tables".

Appeal to fear.

6Inspiring Internet onion seller

Inspiring Internet onion seller¹: It's stupidly simple, but it's real money. It's good business.

https://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/how-to-think-like-an-economist-if-that-is-you-wish-to.html https://hackernoon.com/how-to-make-more-money-as-a-software-developer-da9fc13944e4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productive_forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_(economics)

7<2019-08-17> Economics: anti-cafe

In anti-cafe, one pays for time, not for food.²

8Open source?

https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle/blob/master/README.md

9Business vs company

Business is essence/activity/spirit/idea. Company is form/detail/execution/body.

Business : company = spirit : body.

10Old contents

• file:rich.html was written when I was a materialist before I was into spirituality

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1. https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-internet/↩

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-café↩