Post by @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

2026-10-02 07:29 UTC

Tech bros are like “I built this!” Dude, you didn’t build diddly. The labour your capital captured built it; you just took credit and made sure the resulting work was kept out of the commons. The only thing you did was enclose human potential to benefit the few instead of the many. This is what capitalists do: they reduce human potential into a resource to be farmed within a zero-sum game, thus stealing from all the possible other futures of humanity.

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@bob@epicyon.libreserver.org 2026-10-02 09:05

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Long ago I was chatting in a pub with a co-worker who was filing a patent. He said something to the effect that he was the named inventor, but did he really invent this? From direct experience I knew that the answer was clearly "no" and that the actual invention of the thing was a much more complex process of people and events.

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@Rycochet@furs.social 2026-10-02 10:55

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Modern big tech is rich kids who went to MIT reinventing the tollbooth two hundred times a month, being applauded by the slightly less rich kids in the tech press for their innovation and paying other rich kids who went to lawschool to find new ways to give money to a different set of rich people to buy laws that make their already in place tollbooths legal, and gifting them most of the road network in return for future donations.

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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-10-02 11:50

@aral@mastodon.ar.al One. Hundred. Percent. True, capitalism can sometimes get to these ’advancements’ FASTER. But, they would have happened anyway. And, more importantly, if we developed them slower we’d likely have had products that had better usability for more people, just like original open source used to have..

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