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A fundamental characteristic of capitalism is that capitalist businesses are run as dictatorships, with the capitalists as the dictators. When is the dictator going to replace themselves? Never. If anything, the capitalist will fully automate their job and continue to control all of the profits and continue to run the organization as a dictator. Most capitalists already do some form of this, they just hire other people to do work while they do little to nothing yet continue to "own" the organization, which is why the setup is so good for them, and why their job could be so easily replaced by AI. Unless the structures of businesses change and capitalists no longer have dictatorial authority over hiring/firing.

There's loads of other inefficiencies as well. Moving is a huge hurdle. It's difficult to find housing that meets dozens of conditions, and even then you don't respond to supply + demand imagined equilibrium, you pay more or pay less to live near friends or family. It's something you only do a handful of times in your whole life. Trying to use the same analysis as for buying a can of beans is absurd. You might need to take econ 201 before you understand why econ 101 is wrong about housing.

> It's difficult to find housing that meets dozens of conditions

Correct. That's why when there's more housing you're more likely to find what you need.


False. Even if you don't move, people move all the time and that moves the needle for everyone.

“People like to drink certain kinds of beer” and “some people don’t drink beer often” are not arguments against supply and demand driving beer prices.

Prices in massively inefficient markets do not follow the supply + demand equilibrium. Beer is not an inefficient market. You're doing the absurd comparison.

It's more correct to say supply and demand still drive the overall average, but in a high-friction market of unique items, every single case is still a unique case. It's not like moving wheat bushels or RAM chips. When they sell oil, they mix up all the oil from different producers in the same reservoir, in the same tanks. Electricity travels in the same wires. Housing is nothing like that.

"they mix up all the oil from different producers in the same reservoir"

Only when avoiding sanctions, not normally. And housing does follow economic principles no matter how much you wish that wasn't so.


Housing doesn't follow economic principles that only apply to homogeneous bulk products, that's the point. Electricity is almost perfectly homogeneous. Then you have things like wheat and bread, which vary in quality but are close substitutes. Housing's at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. No two units are alike and they only trade every few years at best.

housing isn’t an inefficient market. It’s surprisingly liquid for how large the purchases are

You need Econ 301 and stats 101 to see Econ 201 is wrong.

Not really, it used to be the case that a full third of Americans moved every year. Obviously life is more complicated than econ 101, but it's also obvious that a current undersupply of housing is one of, if not the primary, drivers of home pricing. Admittedly other factors like the governments interference in the home loan space have also had large effects on the market over the last century.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/america...


I'm not clear: does Econ 201 inform us as to how demand and supply are not related to price?

Yes, you learn why supply + demand curves do not actually describe many markets

So, if instead of installing a bunch of apps, setting up search filters, and refreshing browser tabs on my phone ever 15-30 minutes, then the instant something meets my parameters I immediately leave work and, if possible, make a deposit on a new place, I open an app and find 5000 places meeting my requirements, meet them when I'm not working and on my time, and tell them I like a different one better so I'll hold off before making a decision, makes no difference on the price?

it says "it's complicated".

They also teach you about elasticity in econ 101. It's foolish and anti-intellectual to insist that the housing market has only two factors, while simultaneously condescending about your understanding of economics shows that you really don't understand economics, it's more about your ego.

> It's foolish and anti-intellectual to insist that the housing market has only two factors

Elasticitiy moderates the effect. It doesn't reverse it. Increasing housing supply decreases housing costs. A lot of people are venally or ideologically motivated against accepting this. Our housing crisis is a political choice. (Note: I'm a homeowner.)


This reminds of a fun fact I remember learning in university.

Elasticity is the relationship between demand and supply, and there are actually very rare instances where it can be negative (where demand increases with price).

These are called Giffen goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

Explanation (that I remember)

Inelastic demand is when a good is demanded so much, that an increase in price has little affect on the total quantity (people still demand it, think like addictive substances)

So a perfectly inelastic product would be a straight line where any amount is demanded at any price.

So having the curve keep going it would get a positive slope, where higher price makes demand go up.

If I remember the example I was given was food during a famine. Supply is already low, but an additional pressure on price is the known shortage. The idea being that as the price goes up people see it as harder to get.

It’s been so long since I studied the subject so I might have gotten some things wrong here.


> These are called Giffen goods.

The terminology is actually split; sometimes they're called Giffen goods and sometimes they're called Veblen goods.

The two types have identical behavior, so there's no good reason to have two different names, but in concept Giffen goods are something poor people buy, while Veblen goods are something rich people buy.

(There is a difference if you're willing to look at responses to changes other than a change in the price of a good: if you give a household more money, it will increase consumption of Veblen goods, but decrease consumption of Giffen goods.)


Cool! Thanks!

> A lot of people are venally or ideologically motivated against accepting this.

That’s the story of the last 10 years among certain types that keep regurgitating obviously wrong concepts.


> That’s the story of the last 10 years

The urban orthodoxy is around demand rationing. Supply-side arguments are incredibly new. The evidence cuts in one direction. (Unless we want a hukou system.)


The parent comment never claimed that the housing market only has two factors. You’re arguing against a strawman of your own creation.

This is "Open Hardware" which usually means open PCB or chip schematics, so people can modify or extend the board. OpenWRT is "Open Software that runs on closed hardware".

After checking a couple, Kind of seems like a lot of boards on this "open hardware" list might not actually be open hardware?

Here's an example of what open hardware is supposed to be: https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth/tree/master/h...


by open, we mean that you can flash your own firmware. - but yes, we will need to check manualy each device/board or improve the Claude Opus prompt to make sure that it's doing a very good research when extracting these devices

Yeah, that OnePlus phone is defo the very opposite of open hardware...

If one's looking for an actual open hardware smartphone: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/hw/l5-schematic

Glad to see they are applying some rigor. I've started removing AI-heavy projects from my dependency tree.


Are you and Redox just going to fall behind? Projects that used to take months take days or hours.

It seems well intentioned, but lots of bad ideas are like this.

I was told by my customer they didn't need my help because Claude Code did the program they wanted me to quote. I sheepishly said, 'I can send an intern to work in-house if you don't want to spend internal resources on it.'

I can't really imagine what kind of code will be done by hand anymore... Even military level stuff can run large local models.


Projects that used to take months still take months. LLM’s are only useful for throwaway low-quality slop. Perhaps some times the sloperator will get lucky and the end result isn’t something that will bite them in the ass. But the rest of us foresee a mountain of tech debt that will come knocking one day.

This is like 2 months outdated.

This is a fair representation of the slop I'm given throughout each week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtBI2BvPKBQ


It's an operating system, not a website.

What gets enshrined into law is a function of what powerful people in the society want enshrined. And these companies, their executives, and their beneficiaries are infinitely more powerful than individual users. In many ways the legal system is a compromise that companies tacitly agree to in order for legal/police protection in exchange for not hiring mercenaries and rebelling, as they do in some countries. The legal system has to serve their interests, or else powerful people would revolt. When they do revolt either violently or nonviolently, the laws shift and a new compromise is achieved. Or they just choose not to follow the laws and the state doesn't call them on their bluff, or if they do, it is only an entry-point to negotiation. Thus the current state of laws are a continuum of compromises between power players.


300 billionaire families now fund 19% of US election dollars either directly or via superpac.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-e...


Because they don't "got it". Asking the bot to program is the same as asking a junior engineer to write some code, and then claiming it as your own. It's not actually them programming. Just a misplaced sense of pride.


More gatekeeping, more no true Scotsman fallacies, more bitter cope.

You can absolutely take pride in having raised your own cows. But the guy down the street can also take pride in having cooked his own steak. In fact, the guy down the street might actually be a better chef than you, even though you know how to breed cattle.


You're wrong because you are making the wrong comparison.

In this analogy, The guy down the street didn't cook his own steak. He told someone else to cook the steak. And then claimed that he himself cooked it. Telling himself, "wow, I'm a great chef!". When In fact, he did not cook the steak.

Your greatness as a chef isn't measured by how well you manage restaurant kitchens. That would be a great manager. Your greatness as a chef is measured by actually cooking yourself. Claiming other chef's work as your own would be dishonest and self-deception.


If we want to stretch this analogy a bit - I believe all world-level chefs have a team of sous-chefs working for them. Doing things like chopping ingredients, prepping things, in fact probably doing a lot of th cooking. I think building with ai is pretty similar.


This is the exact analogy that Gene Kim and Steve Yegge used throughout their book Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond.


You have it completely backward, in fact in the culinary arts your greatness as a Chef is entirely dependent on being a manager of restaurant kitchens.

You get judged on the final end product, the full dining hospitality experience, as had by influential customers on a random night (like Michelin inspectors).

The food is just one factor of that experience, and the overwhelming majority of that food on any given night is not actually prepared by the chef with their name on the door, but by his/her staff (the AI Agents in this analogy).


Lol, it's longer than the original article.


We shouldn't move away from tech, because Anthropic is hiring 100+ people to prompt a chatbot to write code? Hahaha, how fast we've fallen.

Not to mention Anthropic has a huge conflict of interest in making you think nothing is wrong. And the author fell for it.


Turns out the DoD has a trillion dollar annual unaccountable money sink, plenty there to make up for it


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