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Invest a little bit in everything / cut all the useless staff and just focus on longevity of the encyclopaedia

it’s certainly doable but requires selfless dedication at the top



“Selfless” - what world are you living in??

Money rules. There’s no ifs and buts about it.

If it doesn’t have a reasonable rate of return, nobody gives a shit.


What Wikipedia are you looking at? It's one of the things that has survived the longest on the Internet without being enshittified. It could live on in Cockroach Mode forever off the money from a modest solar farm or investment in an index fund. If someone sociopath bought the Wikimedia Foundation and tried to strip-mine Wikipedia, the Wikipedia editors could easily take a copy and go elsewhere.

Ironically, I was just listening to an interview with Jimmy Wales in which he said that, as individuals, most humans are basically good. They don't meet someone on the street and think "what is the rate of return on interacting with this thing?"




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