Sure but we’re talking about people who got laid of, they’re not getting a salary anyway. Unless starting a business gets rid of unemployment benefits I guess? But you can hold of on officially forming the business until you have some clients. I’m not saying it’d be easy, but I think it’s better than being unemployed
Tbf, unless there’s some massive capital expense that I’m not thinking about, you don’t really need any capital for doing software related work besides a computer, which most people already have anyway and maybe some office space. Software is about as capital lite as an industry can be, so if making a workers co-op under capitalism is going to work in any industry, it would be software.
FYI it seems about half of these have been taken down
It’s really easy to show this even with a known problem. Ask an LLM to play a game of chess, and then give it 1. h3 as a first move. They always screw up immediately, by making an illegal move. This happens because 1. h3 is hardly ever played, so it isn’t part of it’s model. In fact, it’ll usually play a move that ‘normally’ responds to h3, like Bh5 for example