5 stories tagged capitalism, newest first.
62 points by ianand | 62 comments
Venkatesh Rao essay arguing that AI panic resembles mercantilist thinking before capitalism, drawing on Joyce Appleby's history of capitalism to frame intelligence as abundant.
22 points by mikhael | 6 comments
An Economist business article titled "The era of speedball capitalism has dawned"; the capture shows an access-restricted bot-detection page instead.
58 points by tirumaraiselvan | 19 comments
An essay by Arundhati Roy in Equator magazine, "Apocalypse Now and Then," arguing that artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination.
32 points by longitudinal93 | 28 comments
Substack essay by Michael Garfield and Simon Quarmby tracing how rent extraction, not profit, built the modern economy from enclosure to Big Tech's metered AI.
471 points by zdw | 299 comments
Tim Bray blog post about having a 25-year-old leather sofa's cushions replaced by a small local business, and how modern capitalism makes such repair hard.