| > Soviet programmers invented it in their spare time when they had access to computers, as enthusiasts. What did capitalism add? Capitalism created the computers whose Soviet copies were Tetris' native platform, it made the languages Pajitnov used and the machines he ported it to. It incentivized people to bring Tetris to the rest of the world, and who knows, it might have spread on its own eventually, just for free, but maybe not. > All of the inflation we've seen from the pandemic has been the "raising prices" part. Superficially true, but vacuous. In anyway that matters this is flagrantly and amazingly false. But maybe you weren't aware of the $931 billion US dollars of stimulus paid to individuals, or you may not be familiar with the principle of supply and demand. More dollars in supply, the less the value of each dollar. Prices change to match the devalued currency. > Being expensive to access out of employment is a feature not a bug. I think this may qualify as a bug, to which you can credit the Revenue Act of 1954 for codifying the tax break given to companies who provide healthcare directly rather than pay that money as income to the employee. Classic example of a stale law. Now, vested interests may be keeping it in place, but I also see no significant awareness on the voter side of this issue nor the will to reform this discriminatory tax policy. |
Yeah, GP's claim here was kind of insane. It's trivial to go look up lists of the 100 biggest innovations of the past 100 years (or whatever) and 90-99% of them were capitalism.