
Universal Basic Code: When Governments Mandate Your GitHub Contributions
The Socialist Stack Overflow: Imagining Mandatory Open-Source Picture this: You’re debugging spaghetti code at 2 AM when a government notification pings: “Your monthly open-source contribution quota is due. Penalty: 0.5% tax increase per unmet pull request.” Welcome to Universal Basic Code (UBC) – my satirical take on state-mandated developer philanthropy. Unlike Universal Basic Income’s cash handouts, UBC would require developers to donate code to public repositories. Is this dystopian worker exploitation or digital utopia?...