I'm not strong enough. I read two comments and died
Humans are bad by nature, ergo, any system involving humans will be crony. I am very philosophy.
that last one sounds like a joke, but it's HN, so honestly who knows
Does anyone have a decent response to people that say things like this?
I was at a barbeque last summer and a guy I was talking to said to me "yea I hear you, but the issue is crony capitalism..."
I was kind of dumbfounded and said something along the lines of "crony capitalism is capitalism".
Curious for tips.
Comrade Hakim did a video about this (well it's on corporatism, but a lot of it is similar iirc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luB9VUsXRs8
I'm so thankful for Hakim's videos and work. I wish him nothing but the best.
Yes I should have mentioned that too. I listened to a couple of episodes and it seems like the guys are still getting their bearings. I like all of those creators individually, but I'm not sure if they're quite in a groove together yet.
A lot of people like the idealized form of capitalism because it lets them keep the fruits of their labor, distributes resources where they are needed most, and raises people out of poverty. You have ancaps that are doing mental gymnastics to try and build a neofeudal utopia in their heads, but most people just like the parts of capitalism…. that are communist
Edit: also, ask them a lot of questions. Always good advice for convincing someone of something
ask them at what point in history do they think capitalism was "pure," then list out the travesties against human wellbeing and dignity that were being perpetrated in the name of boundless accumulation whenever they say.
Liberals like to pretend that capitalist competition is like a football league where the losers are relegated and replaced by teams promotes from the lesser league. They don't like to think of it as the struggle for domination that it is.
are there any actually good sites for keeping up with tech? is everything just garbage?
Most of the tech posts on places like this are about the Latest Javascript Framework or the Latest Java Server Framework (now with Even More XML Configuration!) anyway. I personally find that stuff exhausting; I have no interest in looking at a million shitty hello-world examples (which invariably fail to convey even a fraction of the real work necessary to get the thing doing something useful).
Watch a couple of LTT videos per week it is more than you'll ever need.
do we really not have the barf emote? ours could be this cool gif where they're actively puking and you can see the barf all animated and cool. it'd have to be green, with a little bit of red at the end of course.
Half a century ago, when Marx was writing Capital, free competition appeared to the overwhelming majority of economists to be a “natural law”. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly. Today, monopoly has become a fact. Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that “Marxism is refuted”. But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not. The facts show that differences between capitalist countries, e.g., in the matter of protection or free trade, only give rise to insignificant variations in the form of monopolies or in the moment of their appearance; and that the rise of monopolies, as the result of the concentration of production, is a general and fundamental law of the present stage of development of capitalism.
"Hacker News" as a name disgusts me. It's an attempt to appropriate rebellious romanticism while licking boots. :desolate:
"Cronyism" is such a redditor idea. I want to kick everyone who says "cronyism, not capitalism" in the mouth.
