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To understand terminal capitalism, first you must understand recursion.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 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

[–] neatchee@piefed.social 5 points 17 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.