Danny on Nostr: Completely agree with you on Nostr being awesome 😀! You know, "capitalism" itself ...
Completely agree with you on Nostr being awesome 😀!
You know, "capitalism" itself was actually a term invented by socialists - specifically Karl Marx and other 19th century critics - to describe and criticize the market system. Before that, people just called it commerce, trade, or the market economy. It was simply how humans naturally organized themselves when left free to trade and create value.
Being protective and hoarding capital - is, in my opinion, actually more like mercantilism or crony capitalism. The fact that modern corporations (Big Tech, Big Pharma etc) try to lock everything down isn't "real capitalism" - it's a distortion of markets often enabled by state intervention through things like overly restrictive IP laws.
Think about how markets worked before modern corporations and IP law - craftsmen shared techniques, improved on each other's work, and competed on execution rather than artificial scarcity. That's what open source represents - a return to more natural market dynamics that existed before we even had a word for "capitalism".
So in a way I feel like we may be talking about the same thing, but using different words
You know, "capitalism" itself was actually a term invented by socialists - specifically Karl Marx and other 19th century critics - to describe and criticize the market system. Before that, people just called it commerce, trade, or the market economy. It was simply how humans naturally organized themselves when left free to trade and create value.
Being protective and hoarding capital - is, in my opinion, actually more like mercantilism or crony capitalism. The fact that modern corporations (Big Tech, Big Pharma etc) try to lock everything down isn't "real capitalism" - it's a distortion of markets often enabled by state intervention through things like overly restrictive IP laws.
Think about how markets worked before modern corporations and IP law - craftsmen shared techniques, improved on each other's work, and competed on execution rather than artificial scarcity. That's what open source represents - a return to more natural market dynamics that existed before we even had a word for "capitalism".
So in a way I feel like we may be talking about the same thing, but using different words