Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: printer purchases Date: 9 Aug 2025 21:00:24 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <106n49s$5c$1@reader1.panix.com> <106v3jj$3889m$6@dont-email.me> <106v65q$39a16$3@dont-email.me> <1075sla$v529$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fdaBYUUISf9Y7R5kj0WLiwgiOSKbbxiElVFB5XTufnMZkfc5gb Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZbCwa4mV0ESCc8F18jBlUs9YbMs= sha256:6zyPgomHc6vaPrK3lK/ZBi46FRFnKnVz6rXShc39fx4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70697 On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 01:37:12 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Capitalism is generally Very Good. It DOES have certain systemic > flaws - as do all systems. The worst is obliviousness to positive > feedback loops. > Un-buffered, pure Randian, this leads to cyclic collapses that do > serious damage to all but a few. https://futurism.com/ai-bubble-pops-entire-economy "Renaissance Macro Research head of economic research Neil Dutta also shared an astonishing statistic with the WSJ: that capital expenditures for AI have contributed more to the growth of the US economy so far this year than all of consumer spending combined." If that is an accurate assessment, it's scary as hell. “The problem with capitalism is not too many capitalists, but not enough capitalists.” G.k. Chesterton Capitalism and communism both treat man as an economic object and disregard tradition, duty, honor, and so on. for whatever reason I feel more comfortable with the Continental intellectual tradition starting with Sturm und Drang than the Anglo-American.