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There an article talking about privacy, and how to hack a Dreame vacuum cleaner (also why the unofficial community is important xD).

TLDR: Your smart home devices are photographing, recording, and selling you. Not hypothetically — Roomba leaked toilet photos, Ecovacs got hacked from a park bench, Vizio was fined for scanning screens 500 times a second, and 30,000 Amazon employees could listen to your Alexa recordings. "Nothing to hide" isn't the point — you close the window before getting dressed. I hacked my vacuum robot with Valetudo, a breakout PCB, and a Debian live USB. Same robot, same features, zero data leaving my house. Tutorial at the end.

https://postcapitalistrobots.substack.com/p/i-dont-have-anything-to-hide-said

This article shows how Capitalism runs primarily on increasing productivity, and you can break an economy if productivity stagnates or is low. The cool thing is that everything comes from a simulation. Three economies were simulated: extreme Capitalism, Socialism and Communism.

The key slider to kill the Capitalist economy is the productivity. All the data is shown and the simulator is open-source.

TL;DR: Having simulated three economies (Extractivist, Socialist, State-Led), this time I try to break them —or fix them— by changing as few parameters as possible. The Extractivist economy can only be patched by raising productivity, and even then the lower class keeps growing: instability is baked in. The Socialist economy is robust until you cut profit taxes and productivity —then social exclusion jumps to 33%, exactly what "lower taxes" rhetoric leads to. Even the star performer, the State-Led economy, collapses if productivity drops and subsidies disappear: no Capitalists needed to crash an economy. The lesson: economic outcomes aren't natural or organic —they're determined by where you set the levers.

https://postcapitalistrobots.substack.com/p/capitalism-runs-on-infinite-productivity

This post compares late-stage Capitalism, Socialism (or Market Socialism) and Communism (or State-led Economy), and their effect in a simulator. It's based on a Capitalism simulator created, and open-sourced, and it's the sequel of another post that was posted here in this community. It's basically more data from different configurations in the simulator, analyzed, and conclusions drawn. This is more oriented to Socialists, because clearly, the orientation is more socialist, but with rigor in the analysis. I hope Capitalists can be respectful, and read the whole post before commenting.

TL;DR: Tired of propaganda-flavored economics ("Communism failed", "Capitalism is efficient"), I built a free, open-source, browser-based economic simulator and ran three economies — Extractivist Capitalism, Mixed Socialism, and a State-Led (Communist) economy — with identical populations and money supply over 50 years. The results were counterintuitive: the extreme capitalist economy grew its GDP while a third of the population fell into social exclusion; the socialist economy (Norway-like) doubled that GDP growth with almost no exclusion; and the state-led economy performed best of all — highest GDP, no social exclusion, and the top 1% holding just 8% of wealth. Extraction isn't a bug of capitalism; it's hardcoded in its dynamics.

https://postcapitalistrobots.substack.com/p/sorry-the-data-says-communist

I found this interesting sequence of articles where the author simulates capitalism and extract conclusions about a Laissez-faire, and strong Socialist simulator settings. Of course is simplified simulation but very much interesting all the insights, and counterintuitive that a Laissez-faire can survive but under very specific conditions.

“TL;DR: Nobody actually knows what Capitalism is, so I built a simulator. I firstly defined what Capitalism is, and discovered it creates a built-in tension between Capitalists (extracting surplus value) and Workers (creating it). I ran a bunch of scenarios and broke my own beliefs: the "no State, let markets figure it out" thing only works if productivity is massive and Workers capture the gains —super hard in practice. Strong State? People live well. Mostly public ownership? Most people end up upper class. I freed the simulator so you can run it (it’s a website, here).”

https://open.substack.com/pub/postcapitalistrobots/p/i-built-a-capitalism-simulator-and?r=hk3td&utm\_medium=ios