Examining cost comparisons of Iranian drones to US weaponry, to understand the cost of the continued war.

Really good comment in an HN thread about Germany’s declining exports (in the context of car manufacturing). The comment highlights that the density of a local network of specialists is what makes the difference, not brute forcing hours of work.

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

The map above shows how much houses cost in 1950 in each US state in 2024 inflation adjusted US dollars, compared to what the average cost actually is in 2024.

notes: Jeremy Clarkson is an unconscionable pillock. He’s a twat, and a malignant one at that. He’s also right, in this case in this case.

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via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44341281

Interesting article on how modern business theory has re-defined the role of the C-suite leaders, and the consequences thereof.

And yes, using the word “we”, as in “we built this”, this digital Anarres of you-don’t-owe-me-anything, I-give-you-thanks-for-receiving of FOSS apps and free culture, that even I who did the absolute least work possible, like maybe corrected one stray comma in a PR that didn’t even get merged, that’s a point of pride for me because if even I could help then so can you!

Chart outlining US basis trade

Visualization of wealth inequality in the United States.

Visualization of wealth inequality in the United States.

It’s pretty difficult to build an economy without plundering the Earth for fossil fuels, metals or stone. Soviet’s economy was built on that, as is the AANES, as is every capitalist economy ever.

But it is possible. We can discover the wonders of nature. Here’s one example based on symbiosis between mycorrhiza fungi and pine trees:

Kevin Carson The Homebrew Industrial Revolution A Low-Overhead Manifesto January 2010

There’s no such thing as a free lunch under capitalism—for anarchists, there’s no other kind

Disambiguation: According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in wh…

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