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Hamilton Nolan
Personal blog · hamiltonnolan.compoliticseconomics
Hamilton Nolan writes How Things Work, a personal blog at hamiltonnolan.com about politics and economics. Since 2023, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link Hamilton Nolan's posts on socialism's rising poll numbers and on enshittification and broken economic math, as related reading on capitalism and subscription models.
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Labor, politics, and power.
Most-linked posts?
- Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-07-29
- On Having a Maximum Wealth2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-26
What Hacker News says?
Also timely/relevant: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/i-want-you-to-tell-me-what-s...
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on “Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time”Submitted Automate the CEOs as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThis is crazy, thanks for sharing. Capitalist America is crazy. It reminds me of this article shared some days ago - Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittification-relies-on-b...
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