[untog]

Funny that this is so high up on Hacker News. The first quote on the page:

“Today, humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.”

There won't be too many startup accelerators or funding rounds when we ditch capitalism, folks. Funny how there was none of this talk on iPhone Launch Day, either...

[sp332]

It's too bad they tied the word "capitalism" to the specific, "short term gains at all cost" system we have now. I guess it's not too surprising really, since most people only think of Marxism when someone says "communism" etc. But of course it's possible to have a good, responsible and caring society without ditching capitalism.

[fleitz]

But there will be untold millions for those lucky enough to win the political patronage lottery.

[mseebach]

No one is claiming that we can't or shouldn't try to fix the problems with the system.

[krisc]

Doesn't pg commenting on this thread validate it's relevance? I posted this because I wanted to see a hacker discussion of this topic.