What Phil Hagelberg thinks about capitalism

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Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Phil Hagelberg has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 25 Apr 2026

   Our readingDominant companies shape not just their users' choices but the imagination of people actively trying to resist them.

   Their wordsWhen a company dominates the market, they capture not only their own users but even the imaginations of people actively resisting them.

   ↗in which more paths are charted towards code independencetechnomancy.us 2nd of 3 in this piece