| ▲ | oompydoompy74 3 hours ago |
| Neat! Not sure why the comments on this post are immediately asking if it’s useful. Not everything has to be immediately useful to exist. Kill the capitalist in your head. |
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| ▲ | nozzlegear 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Kill the capitalist in your head. Who referenced capitalism? And do anarchists, socialists, communists, et al., never question the usefulness of a thing either? |
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| ▲ | asdff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The difference is those groups promote culture for culture's sake. Capitalism does not. Culture is only promoted if there is profit to be made off promoting it. As such what culture exists is severely inorganic and dependent on market forces rather than being some proxy of the actual ideaspace of the community. | | |
| ▲ | mghackerlady an hour ago | parent [-] | | well, to be pedantic, stalinist tendencies of socialism (and leninist inspired movements as a whole), tend to prioritise culture as a way to communicate the ideals of the party. Capitalism, in its most pure form, puts profit before anything else in any form of work | | |
| ▲ | asdff an hour ago | parent [-] | | It isn't as heavy handed as people might have assumed. I can't find the exact quote now but there is one from a filmmaker saying they had more creative freedom under the USSR than the US. In the USSR there were some things you couldn't talk about directly but subtext was often fine. In the US there was that going on as well, but you also had the need for the film to make money and merchandize other downstream products and businesses that lead to a loss of absolute creative control in favor of supporting these efforts. | | |
| ▲ | mghackerlady an hour ago | parent [-] | | I believe it was George Lucas talking about some soviet friends | | |
| ▲ | asdff 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Thanks. I was even going to mention how George made some decisions in star wars arguably to further toy sales. |
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| ▲ | Matl 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I mean it's not hard to understand where the author is coming from. It seems like these days even a hobby project has to meet some kind of 'is there a market for it' threshold of justifying its existence. So your parent may've taken the 'is it useful' comments to mean 'if not, why even exist' but I got the sense they're more from people who are considering an install, even if just in a VM. | |
| ▲ | Computer0 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Bro you're not killing him... |
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| ▲ | torstenvl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Kill the capitalist in your head. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html |
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| ▲ | SirFatty 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If it's not useful, then why create it? |
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| ▲ | dgellow 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What a depressing thing to read on _hacker_ news of all places You might want to read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture | | |
| ▲ | applfanboysbgon 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's just a name, after all. More accurately, this site would be titled VC Incubator News. | | | |
| ▲ | mghackerlady an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Are you telling me hacker news isn't just for advertising vibe coded slop services as a get rich quick scheme? Impossible, why did claude put it in my marketing.md then? (/s in case it isn't obvious) | |
| ▲ | bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | HN isn't reddit, for better and for worse. This is the "Orange Site" that gave us Sam Altman, defends monopolies and shits out thousands of net-negative SaaS startups that leech off Open Source software. Manufacture of depression is one of YC's byproducts that everyone loves to ignore while berating Flock and 9 Mothers like they spontaneously popped into existence. Your peers on this website are not principled, fun-loving Freenode/Libera geeks. HN is the Linkdin of underground social networking. |
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| ▲ | noja 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This is unexpectedly one of the saddest comments I have ever read here. | | |
| ▲ | sunaookami 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The "everything needs to have a purpose and make money" mentality here is very exhausting. |
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| ▲ | QuercusMax 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'd love to hear your critique of an art gallery | |
| ▲ | HerbManic 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!". We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more. And that's cool. | |
| ▲ | blks 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | For fun. | |
| ▲ | wat10000 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We could say the same for most of the comments on this site, including yours and mine. | |
| ▲ | _Microft 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because they can. | |
| ▲ | nothinkjustai 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are you useful? | | |
| ▲ | fragmede 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's the scary part about AI and the transformation it'll have on society. The answer to that question for all of us, soon enough, will be no, not useful enough vs an AI. Then what happens? | | |
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