Large Heydon ColliderMy FFConf talk "Capitalism, The Web, And You" is now available to watch. Enjoy?!
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Someone who didn't like this talk, calling it uneducated, sent me to an alternative view of capitalism I might learn from. It contains such gems as: "The development of capitalism consists in everyone’s having the right to serve the customer better and/or more cheaply. And this method, this principle, has, within a comparatively short time, transformed the whole world. It has made possible an unprecedented increase in world population."
https://mises.org/library/economic-policy-thoughts-today-and-tomorrow/html/c/46
It's a (right) Libertarian thinktank based in buttfuck Alabama. The article isn't even proofed properly. 🤡
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Dave 🧱 
I can't breathe 🤣
"The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable."
I'm clinically dead 🤣
"The mothers who worked in the factories had nothing to cook with; they did not leave their homes and their kitchens to go into the factories, they went into factories because they had no kitchens, and if they had a kitchen they had no food to cook in those kitchens."
I cannot think of a milder word to use than the word "falsified history"...
"Again and again, the early historians of capitalism have—one can hardly use a milder word—falsified history."
How times have changed.
"the difference between the man of the middle class and the man of the lower class was that the man of the middle class had shoes and the man of the lower class did not have shoes. In the United States today the difference between a rich man and a poor man means very often only the difference between a Cadillac and a Chevrolet. "
What 🤣
"Are you, as an individual, prepared to pay more for something, let us say, a loaf of bread, if you are told that the man who produced this loaf of bread has six children? The honest man will certainly answer in the negative and say, “In principle I would, but in fact if it costs less I would rather buy the bread produced by a man without any children.”"
So is capitalism being responsible [citation needed] for population growth a good or bad thing?
Matthijs Brouwer@heydon is it responsible? There has been significant growth before capitalism. But more importantly: How much growth is there? Absolute population increases but growth rate has been falling for nearly 60 years now, since 1964 (https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#how-has-the-world-population-growth-rate-changed). If capitalism is the source of population growth, and population growth is shrinking is capitalism then now vanishing?
@mcbrwr yeah, the article is absolute nonsense
@heydon It is. I generaly try to keep up a positive view of humanity, a lot of good things happen, a lot of good is done. “Focus on what you want to grow” and so on.. But the amount and depth of bullshit like this is mindblowing. It used to be “entertaining”, it’s only disturbing now.
I can't stop dipping in and out of this risible piece of shit genius article.
"The Marxians formulated their theory in this way: if the workers’ wage rates go up, raising wages above the subsistence level, they will have more children; and these children, when they enter the labor force, will increase the number of workers to the point where the wage rates will drop, bringing the workers once more down to the subsistence level"
David McCormick@heydon did someone ask GPT3 to troll you?
@dmc I was told I needed to be eductaed about capitalism. I thanked the person who shared to me because I found it hilarious. They immediately blocked me, so I think they probably wrote it. https://mises.org/library/economic-policy-thoughts-today-and-tomorrow/html/c/46
Mia (web luddite)
Chris Lagasse@mia What indeed!
Tom KeaysMy mother said, crying, "Are you really trying?
You live in a Chevy. Now son, I been thinkin'
If you'd only bother to work hard like your father
By the time he was your age he lived in a Lincoln"
Stu Robson@heydon I don’t remember this from Sex. Ed.
@sturobson My poor mam, sidelined by Capitalism AGAIN.
I should have mentioned in my talk that I was so taken with Zuboff's "virgin wood" metaphor that I set the whole monologue to music. KInd of a God Spped You Black Emperor style thing but hip hop. https://soundcloud.com/heydonworks/virgin-wood #capitalism
Virgin Wood
I sampled Zuboff talking about surveillance capitalism from the Adam Buxton podcast, then turned it into a tense/noisy hip hop piece inspired by Dälek.
Andy Bell@heydon absolute banger talk. So glad it's available
Tane Piper ⁂
Martijn Frazer@heydon Aw yeah this is the good stuff
Matt Brunt@heydon well, that's my lunchtime watching sorted! :D
Cassie@heydon ahhh yeah, can't wait to watch this.
Lex Lofthouse*sending to everyone I know*
rem@heydon can't believe you'd put a question mark on that. It wuz amazing!
Quiff@heydon In. Cred. Ible.
Love it.
🔛 @@heydon Thank you! Awesome talk on such an important topic!
Nikki Massaro@heydon one of those meaningful talks that makes everything that follows it feel like useless bullshit.
darius@heydon Brilliant as always. Loved the pacing. This needs to be viewed by pretty much everybody.
Paul McBride@heydon this is a fantastic talk. Somehow both hilarious and deadly serious.
Steve Faulkner@heydon watched it all. Some good info on CSS support for new features.
bebsico@heydon thank you for that! very much appreciate how you use your platform.
@heydon☝️this is a belter
Franck ☠️@heydon A master class!
Guy@heydon one of the best talks I’ve ever seen. Should be required viewing. Also yay container queries.
@Guy I mean, I am genuinely excited for style/container queries. So cool!
dani@heydon @type_error you were right, I did like it! And I agree!
Sophie Koonin
Ollie BoermansThank you @heydon for the comfort you brought me in the difficult times.
Your reminders of the progress in the CSS specs and their implementations fills me with hope that I will not lose interest, or fail to find challenge, as I work to earn my slice of The Pie.
🥧🙏
Florian Egermann@heydon will recommend this talk to anybody who wants to learn CSS. Great explanation of all the dependencies!