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Hi, I have similar feelings where I really don't do good things at my programming day job. I see a lot of the evils of the world as systemic issues caused by capitalism and globali…

Hi, This site details some ugly points about the world we live in. The goal is to convince people that there is a real and serious problem of exploitation and our work (particularl…

Nice one :) Generally the logic of the work is: 1. Capitalism is poor at providing value to the majority (eg. globally the top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 99%) and ensuring…

Hi, I think both are highly valuable. But I agree that it is remarkable that we appear to be putting in little effort into trying to resolve our societal issues. I think a new syst…

Cheers, hadn't seen the 'Veil of ignorance' concept before. Quite thought provoking.

Indeed I agree competition is necessary. With the right system though competition between individuals is sufficient. Humans will try and get ahead to woo their spouse by whatever m…

It isn't so much the inequality itself is bad, but rather having distinct groups that compete with each other. (Group inequality is an inevitable outcome of this but not the root i…

> What makes you believe this? Many people, myself included (and I write software), think software people would not be so great at this, because society isn't code. Social and emot…

I agree people seem to be either "the free market solves all problems" or "capitalism is slavery and must be destroyed" (but don't focus on an actual viable alternative). I'm chipp…

Thanks. I did some research on that book. The 'economic calculation problem' seems to be the main point. I disagree that market forces are the only way to price goods and services.…

Hi, The classic issues that I am aware of are: - Those in power have too much power and cannot be deposed democratically. As such they will assuredly become corrupt. - 'from each a…

You seemed unclear about open socialism and my motivations for posting so I tried to clarify. Anyway, let's keep chatting on github if you are keen.

Thanks for the feedback. The essence of open socialism is to have a cooperative system without free enterprise. I think most people would accept that without resources expended due…

Hi, I created Open Socialism as a compelling alternative to democratic capitalism. Democratic capitalism had some good years and achieved a lot, but it has started to be highly ine…

Thank goodness. So tired of learning haskell = become a master of solving algorithms.

Code just looks ugly and Atom looks amazing out of the box. Possibly not the most important feature, but it does matter quite a bit I think.

Yeah I'm with you. Developers should have no problem dealing with whitespace and the result is you get a easier to read format. Although admittedly I haven't had to work with YAML …

I would add to other comments to watch out for people that believe their own bullshit. My current company I could tell that when the team lead talked about it being Agile and using…