Hacker News with Generative AI: Capitalism

Before you can have Smalltalk, you must first defeat capitalism? (mgaudet.ca)
At SPLASH 2024 there were a few talks and sessions that felt a bit like lamentations.

Software Engineering, Capitalism, Criticism

14 points by ska80 25 days ago | 11 comments

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (davidharvey.org)
Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens.

Marxism, Economics, Capitalism, Philosophy

9 points by squircle 40 days ago | 0 comments

I've Soured on Open Source (greaterdanorequalto.com)
Look, I get the noble intentions that originally spawned the movement, but y'all, capitalism is winning, and Open Source isn't changing that fact by an appreciable margin. What it is doing, however, is convincing a whole lot of talented people to donate critical hours of their life to working on tools and libraries that profitable corporations are making bank off of.

Open Source, Capitalism, Software Development

37 points by shprd 57 days ago | 90 comments

Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism (foreignpolicy.com)

Japan, Economics, Politics, Capitalism

35 points by segasaturn 93 days ago | 113 comments

A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning (asomo.co)

Lego, Capitalism, Economics, Art

68 points by Gigamouse 95 days ago | 49 comments

The Shareholder Supremacy (wheresyoured.at)

Business, Economics, Capitalism

9 points by elorant 145 days ago | 0 comments

Degrowth In Japan: Mending the "metabolic rift" of capitalism (noemamag.com)