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Jason Barrett Prado
Personal blog · venturecommune.substack.comeconomicspolitics
Jason Barrett Prado writes venturecommune, a personal blog at venturecommune.substack.com about economics and politics. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Go where workers are and organize with them”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread on YouTube's recommendation system. The comment responds to a quoted claim about technology being ahead of current conditions, and argues against technological determinism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Imagining alternatives to for-profit tech.
Most-linked posts?
- Go where workers are and organize with them2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-24
What Hacker News says?
> I think you're about ten steps ahead of where we are now Nah I am a socialist and believe these things should have been democratically owned and controlled from the start. Where you think or hope the steps you mentioned might lead to sounds to me a lot like technological determinism: i.e. 'trickle down innovation' [1], and that's not where I would want us to go. In other words: we're behind, not ahead. [1] https:/…
Comment linking /p/go-where-workers-are-and-organize
on “On YouTube’s recommendation system”Submitted TikTok's seizure is a lesson in modern capitalism as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Go where workers are and organize with them as a story · 2 points
HN discussion