I've been looking into Haskell and it seems really good. But does it have mature and productive frameworks that handle database access, HTTP, etc., or am I better off just going with Elixir/Phoenix?

Making things worse in the short term in the hope of bringing about a utopian society in the long term through social tension and misery... that sounds like a pretty evil philosophy to me. Ordinary people (non-communists) don't care about some theoretical utopia, they want improvements to their quality of life now.

Am I missing something?

People say capitalism is efficient, yet Twitter has around 5,OOO employees while Mastodon was built pretty much single handedly by Eugene Rochko. Today, Mastodon provides a strictly superior user experience with only a handful of contributors.

Majority of effort at Twitter is directed towards things like ads and tracking that are actively harmful from user perspective. Meanwhile, the core functionality of the platform that benefits the users can be implemented with a small fraction of the effort.

Seems to me that capitalism is actually far more inefficient than open source development in practice.

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There are a lot of misconceptions around what different political terms mean, so, in the interest of clear and cogent debate, I thought I'd make a post to clear them up. Please comment if you find any of the explanations insufficient or inaccurate.

Economic Systems

• Capitalism is an economic system where investors pool their resources to fund corporations, which generate profits to give back to the investors. In a capitalist economic system, corporations are incentivized to maximize profits. Capitalism is currently the hegemonic economic system in the world.
• Socialism (also known as "economic democracy") is a proposed economic system similar to capitalism but with public investments taking the place of private investments. In a socialist economic system, corporations are incentivized to improve society. A variety of socialist economic models exist; some propose a market system with competing democratically-managed corporations, whereas others propose a command e