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i wonder what to make of this (correct) observation that we in the hacker community are just making clones of capitalist computer products

we're all aware of this weird cultural shadow microsoft, google, apple, ..., are all casting over us but cannot seem to do anything

i think we need a deeper understanding of this paradox where we are racing to copy capitalist products, and we know it isn't changing anything, but we just keep doing it anyway.

how can we be fully aware of our behaviour, knowing it is fruitless, and yet unable to change it? what is this sort of thing?