Re: Interesting - Ukraine Missiles Use Open Source, Russians Use Pi-4s
Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]>
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On 2026-07-23, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:57:18 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> Depends who you man by capitalists > > That is a problem, isn't it. It's hard to discuss economics without using > terms from the Marxist vocabulary. I'm not sure if they coined 'finance > capitalism' or not. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance_capitalism How about "hypercapitalism". Or "extreme capitalism"? After all, many problems are due to a potentially good idea being taken to extremes. > Back in the '70s I was skeptical when they were touting the new 'service > economy' that would replace those dirty old factories that actually made > things. The transition is almost complete. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy And when the dirty old factories shut down, infrastructure started decaying. The problem with infrastructure is that no matter how essential it might be, it's not sexy. Nobody gets elected on infrastructure - or unelected by neglecting it. > You know you're screwed when Bondi, the former attorney general, used > the reply “The Dow is over 50,000 right now,” to justify the sudden > disinterest in the Epstein records. Naturally - that was the purpose of the Iran war instead. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | In this world there are \ / <[email protected]> | two kinds of people: X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | 1. Those who can extrapolate / \ if you read it the right way. | from incomplete data.