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An und für sich
Personal blog · itself.wordpress.comphilosophycareer
An und für sich is a personal blog at itself.wordpress.com about philosophy and career. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on the economics of streaming and capitalism, such as Spotify's purpose and the case for guaranteed income. The linked posts are cited as supporting context, not praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
The observation that Spotify is in business solely to increase its own capitalization and not directly for music-related reasons ties in nicely to this post: https://itself.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/like-a-business/ Spotify appears to be an organization related in some way to music, but in fact its purpose is merely to turn money into more money. This is not the way many businesses in the real world actually operate,…
Comment linking /2013/03/27/like-a-business/
on “Making Cents – the meager royalties paid out to bands by streaming services”Submitted Financial Strategies for Grad Students (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're clearly already in a transitional time where our society produces much more wealth than we need - so much so that we have to artificially increase consumption in order to keep the gears of capitalism turning. There are people who are already advocating for a "guaranteed minimum income" - part of the idea is that if it wasn't so painful to be unemployed, then people would be less likely to oppose automating job…
Comment linking /2013/04/26/from-the-generalized-resource-curse-to-communism/
on “Jaron Lanier: Free information, as great as it sounds, will enslave us all”Submitted My radical pedagogical program as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Like a business as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Misknown Desire of the Philosophers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion