Infinite Scroll

This is just conjecture without proof, followed by a lazy shot at capitalism. https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ugh-capitalism At the very least, provide some citation that a 20 cent increase in production price would cause a 2 euro increase in consumer price, as you claimed.

It isn't some complicated masterstroke. The adults are not in the room anymore. https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/there-is-no-plan-theyre-just-morons

The "Ugh, Capitalism"[0] articles always seem to assume that capitalism started in the last 20 years or so. Which is obviously false. If the company lost its culture of safety that's definitely bad, but of course that culture developed under capitalism in the first place. How does a constant factor (capitalism) explain a change? The finance industry is a much larger part of the US economy than it has been in the past [1], which does seem like a problem and likely the cause of many of these issues. I'm not sure about the right solution, but it's definitely not to end capitalism. [0] https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ugh-capitalism [1] https://equitablegrowth.org/the-rising-financialization-of-the-u-s-eco… Figure 1

For example it is cool to be anti-capitalist - and many people knocking capitalism are just signaling for status: https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ugh-capitalism (probably HN off-topic because politicised.)

Kind of an "Ugh, Capitalism" take - https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ugh-capitalism

The leap from a leftist take on vaporwave straight to "fashwave", as if it is a binary, is certainly something. > even young people who aren't very "woke" can tell something's wrong at the heart of capitalism. Current techbro capitalism? Who really likes it? There's (valid) critique of the current economic status quo, and then there's "Ugh, Capitalism": https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/ugh-capitalism - and from my time in the scene (several ElectroniCons, Neo Gaia shows in Tokyo, a dozen or so Discord servers, etc.) the trend seems to be disillusioned millennials rather than diehard illiberals (although I may be wrong; this is anecdotes rather than evidence) What really takes me back is that if an art movement uses the imagery of a particular trope, be it fascism or communism or anti-colonialism or environmentalism or anything else, it almost always assumes an endorsement of that movement. You don't see many artists put up images of mustache man without it being seen as support. Same with Michael Jackson's Earth Song, no one concluded that MJ was in favor of environmental deconstruction. The copyright angle is right on the money - anti-copyright views are rife inside the scene for obvious reasons. Whether it was central to the 80s-90s economy is another question. In that time, FLOSS was not prevalent as it is now. It wouldn't be for a decade or so afterwards. > 1) as a child, that era seemed to be so exciting; 2) as an adult now, not only that culture did turn out to be…