I was about to say the same thing, but I haven't read A Modest Proposal since high school, so I poked around Wikipedia a bit and had lots of fun reading about t

I was about to say the same thing, but I haven't read A Modest Proposal since high school, so I poked around Wikipedia a bit and had lots of fun reading about the kinds of satire. There's Juvenalian, which "addresses social evil through ridicule" and includes works like 1984, American Psycho, Family Guy, A Modest Proposal, and, I guess, this 67signals thing. Then there's Horatian, which "playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour" and is a lot of Twain, The Simpsons, Dr. Strangelove, and the Friedisms thing I linked to. Hard to say what the social evil is that the folks who wrote 67signals say they're fighting against. Possibly success. Possibly some angry comments DHH made when a startup took their code: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/31/this-site-mocks-37-signals-after-it-attacked-a-yc-startup-for-stealing-code/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/31/this-site-mocks-37-... (Anyway, apologies for the tangent--I went to a liberal arts school and there's a dusty corner of my brain that still likes this stuff.)