[quadrangle]

What a totally bizarre posting. Capitalism is the best system except for these fundamental facts about how f'ed up it is?

And on a post about the craziness and bad experience in a wasteful business area that shouldn't exist? The entire concept of African American women buying Indian hair is just a continuing piece of systematic racism taken to its fullest by the victims themselves. This entire system from the hairdressers lacking capital for inventory to the women buying the hair is all disgusting waste.

The whole "this garbage (capitalism like this) is the best possible option" is pathetic learned helplessness.

[AlexWest]

Couldn't agree more. That random sentence thrown in: "Capitalism is the best system in the world," left my mouth hanging open with it's total lack of justification.

[Frompo]

Then it goes on to say that his peers makes too much money and gosh, that must be frustrating for the poor hairdressers and that's just how it goes in this, the best of all worlds. But now this app will change that quite a bit for, isn't it great that I'm investing?!

[fragsworth]

That's the impression I got from it too. Ben Horowitz should probably run his blog posts through a PR agency. He has enough money for it, I'm sure.

[mistermann]

This comment is interesting to me because as much as I try, I have absolutely no idea who you are mad at in this scenario.

[quadrangle]

That's an interesting reply. Just because a situation is f'ed up doesn't necessarily mean there's a clear evil entity responsible. To push it to that would be scapegoating.

We can find a source for this particular topic though: the long disgraceful history of racism that leads people to think that Indian hair (being straight like lots of European hair) is more beautiful than curly African hair.

There are so many problems, socially, economically, etc. with this situation; and I'm annoyed at anyone who describes the situation as something other than messed up. It's messed up that many black women think their natural hair isn't attractive enough; it's messed up that many black men think black women's natural hair isn't attractive enough; it's messed up that capitalists figure out how to continue promoting those views and profiting off of this; it's messed up that there's still enough economic inequity that black hairstylists work on tight margins and credit… and it's messed up that the jerks who wrote this article are brainwashed into thinking this sort of capitalism is the best economic system we could ever have. It's also messed up that they think it's reasonable to publish something that says effectively "X is the best we can have, except that it is horrible" without any sense of irony or other nuance.

[icelancer]

Generally "everyone" is the correct answer for these sorts of baseless rants.

[ci5er]

Just pretend that (s)he thought that (s)he was in /r/economics or /r/basicincome and it makes a lot more sense.

[patcon]

systems ;)

it is an overly hostile comment imho, but i can sympathize.