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It makes sense to me to try to be good at Capitalism. You're right, it may be a fool's errand, but what's the alternative?

FWIW, can't believe I'm replying to literally "throwaway random number" but Capitalism isn't my cup of tea. I rode around on a bicycle for the last decade.

But it's what we've got.

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It's not like the past generations didn't try to make it work, too, and for-profit development has failed to deliver the promise of technology that uplifts rather than oppresses by any metric i can think of. If capitalism doesn't work, and there are no alternatives, then perhaps we shouldn't be using chips at all and we should be focusing on other means to solve problems in our society.

Edit: wikipedia is nice. So are cheap universal personal cameras. Point to point communication is nice. None of these require capitalism at all; indeed, capital will want to rent out these as well (if you aren't already renting through a cell plan). why must our needs always be subservient to those of the market?