More generally, please don't use HN for ideological battle. That's also in the site guidelines. The reason we ask people this is not because we're against your ideology, but because in the big Venn diagram of internet conversation, there's almost no overlap between the "ideological battle" bubble and the "curious conversation" bubble. We want curious conversation here.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29187971.
I do not acknowledge your authority to define that term specifically. You have authority over your property not others agency. Delete it from the DB after the fact.
I’m curious about a new political narrative aside from “coddle industrialists and landlords who won before you were born.” How do we get there without studying the system as is? Without comparing and contrasting it with others.
If it’s so banal why pressure myself into restraint? I understand a government that actively protects servicing the sick and needy before do-nothings whose names appear on deeds is a threat to your routine but it seems to me moral relativism is fine for you and the VC cottage industry. Why should society as a whole concern itself with your preferences?
You spend your time cleaning a database of trite commentary that, by your own language, is boring. What a deeply curious application of agency.
What do I know having been in rooms with people of the sort to be invited to Davos talking about keeping power out of the hands of the masses, just as James Madison, author of the Constitution, meant when he wrote the Senate ought to protect the opulent minority from the poor majority.
Blue collar Protestant work ethic is the worst. Instigating anxious doing in rubes is tribal warlord 101; yes yes you stay busy while I sit here.
My value store isn’t dollars, it’s a network of people collectively building in all contexts, not just the ones that are preferred by politics (indeed the “god father” of market economics, Adam Smith, only mentions one market; a free labor “market” that can move between gigs as needed; not sitting still for one employer). That just gives rich nobodies a pass on real effort, loads me up on real work by gate keeping undesirables rather than training them.
It effectively creates constraints on agency at scale, and quotas for the poor; exactly the sort of economy the US is not.
I bet the rich didn’t have a hard time finding TP.
You’re letting someone grift alright, just not who you think.