>I made/make no claim about the relative moral merits of capitalism Sorry for the misunderstanding. My reference to capitalists was a general point and not r

>I made/make no claim about the relative moral merits of capitalism Sorry for the misunderstanding. My reference to capitalists was a general point and not related to anything specific you wrote. Others in the thread mention capitalists so I just added it to my reply for color. >However there are undoubtably systems of human organization and resource management that would change the fundamentals assumptions behind this. I appreciate you bringing up Conway's Law as an explanation but I'm not fully convinced. I think there's an even more fundamental force than any artificial human organization such as Conway: if a bunch of humans don't want to do something , it creates an opening in the market for another group to do it instead. If that "something" is information technology related, it tends to create centralization. A bunch of us don't want to set up a personal git server (for whatever reasons), and therefore, it creates an opening in the marketplace for Github to exist. At this primal level of desires, I don't think we have to bring in Conway's Law.