Hacker News with Generative AI: Capitalism

The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing (pluralistic.net)
The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system. If that wasn't true, why would your "choose" commercial surveillance, abusive workplaces and other depredations?

Economics, Social Commentary, Capitalism, Inequality

11 points by lapcat 6 days ago | 2 comments

It's Still Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism (astralcodexten.com)
No Set Gauge has a great essay on Capital, AGI, and Human Ambition, where he argues that if humankind survives the Singularity, the likely result is a future of eternal stagnant wealth inequality.

Capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Wealth Inequality

34 points by ralphsebastian 11 days ago | 11 comments

Myth of Meritocracy (wikipedia.org)
Myth of meritocracy is a phrase arguing that meritocracy, or achieving upward social mobility through one's own merits regardless of one's social position, is not widely attainable in capitalist societies because of inherent contradictions.

Social Inequality, Capitalism, Sociology

12 points by DiscourseFan 12 days ago | 5 comments

It's Still Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism (astralcodexten.com)
No Set Gauge has a great essay on Capital, AGI, and Human Ambition, where he argues that if humankind survives the Singularity, the likely result is a future of eternal stagnant wealth inequality.

Capitalism, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Future, Inequality

6 points by toomuchtodo 16 days ago | 1 comments

The Plot to Poison Children's Minds (paulkrugman.substack.com)
This is going to be a post about social media, why it’s often harmful, and the disgusting failure of Congress to do anything to mitigate the harm. It’s part of what I envision as a series on “limbic capitalism.” But first, let’s talk about drinking.

Social Media, Politics, Capitalism

24 points by bhouston 16 days ago | 28 comments

Surveillance Capitalism 2024, Wrapped (asomo.co)
How spying-as-a-service now gets sent to us as a Christmas present

Surveillance, Privacy, Capitalism, Technology, 2024

16 points by nikodotio 21 days ago | 1 comments

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 81 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 96 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 113 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 149 days ago | 113 comments

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

Lego, Capitalism, Economics, Art

68 points by Gigamouse 151 days ago | 49 comments

The Shareholder Supremacy (wheresyoured.at)

Business, Economics, Capitalism

9 points by elorant 201 days ago | 0 comments

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