To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    18 hours ago

    What is capitalism if not recursion? Spending more and more resources on falling into a bottomless pit.

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      7 hours ago

      Oh, I meant the ping pong loop of the GitHub bot and it was pure technical nitpicking. But since you’re asking, the definition of recursion is a function calling itself. I find it difficult thinking about capitalism as a single function. For me it looks more like running an infinite loop on finite resources. But applying a technical term as a metaphor leaves a lot of room for interpretation, so there is no right or wrong

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      18 hours ago

      Not to be pedantic, and I do appreciate the humor, but that’s not recursion either :3 Recursion doesn’t need to be endless. Recursive functions can absolutely have logical termination.