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>Is "absence of monetization" a value?

If capitalism is a value, then anti-capitalism is also a value. A lot of people believe the presence of capitalism on the web is fundamentally antithetical to what they see as its fundamentally anarchist/anti-establishment ethos.

Besides, the cost per month of running a small forum nowadays is less than what many people here spend on a single lunch. Not everyone is running a business or a startup.




Ah, the fundamentally anarchist/anti-establishment ethos of millions of computers connected to each other (making a coordinated and organized establishment of their own with hierarchical substructures).


>anti-capitalism is also a value

Say it with me: communism.


Say it with me: anti-capitalist philosophies besides communism exist.


Communism is such an overloaded word that baseline communism as defined by David Graeber is probably a better antonym to capitalism.




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