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20 years with nearly nothing going wrong

Technology also causes the rate of profit to fall. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_prof...

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A representative democracy would require at least some politicians representing working cutizens.

Rants are very different from actually influencing the software. The same people rarely care for the alternatives to systemd.

those HN posters are just rabid libertarians hell bent on dragging any and all services that are not privately owned and operated for profit.

Trains are running more safely, efficiently, elegantly, and reliably than both cars and airplanes, and they have consistently done so with a much longer track record.

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Not sure what point you're trying to make but the "non corporate hobbyists" are ineffective to the point of irrelevance when it comes to Linux core development. Everything they do …

Private equity is an inevitability of a financialised capitalist economy, so what are you suggesting? Some sort of vigilante justice?

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The so-called "Linux enthusiast community" is better described as the Linux corporate enterprise community. Understanding this makes your comment make a lot more sense. The "specif…

> The videos look impressive Where are these videos?

You are conflating Amazon with Amazon.com, and vice versa at your convenience. It's much too sloppy of analysis to sustain a worthy discussion.

It does work to an extent, but it's an appallingly cheap strategy that will fall very short of making NYC public transit remotely decent.

No, it's a scam that will backfire and ultimately end in regression. You can't just get rid of cars. You have to replace them with something. Working people will feel the pain of t…

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When were profits negative? AFAIK Amazon.com may lose money but AWS more than makes up for it. Amazon.com is a long game to monopolize retail logistics , which they are just now st…

Amazon is a private enterprise and its profit is soaring, which means this is simply a non-issue. I thought HN knew how free markets worked but I guess not.

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> It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces. It is privatization that renders the government only capable of punitive solutions (regressiv…

a democratic state, which can only be achieved if the ruling class wants (they don't) it or the working class demands it.

You must be joking. Since tyrant Robert Moses, NYC is undeniably built for cars. Maybe if anything had changed since then you would have a point, but the fact is American society i…

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