Now you've basically made people wary to respond to you in fear of being labeled commies ;) HN is supposed to be a forum for entrepreneurs but many of the visi

Now you've basically made people wary to respond to you in fear of being labeled commies ;) HN is supposed to be a forum for entrepreneurs but many of the visitors here are hired workers doing stuff for BigCos and that means trading our ability to close tickets for money. As a junior engineer you are told: "here is this nagging bug, go fix it", and as you become a senior you may hear something more glorious like: "ok we are going to expand to this new market so our system needs to scale tenfold. go figure how to do it" and reap some substantial material benefits along the way but it's really the same thing. Sure the whole process requires creativity and novel ideas in the small but nobody cares about your ideas in the large. I guess much of the sympathy for the workers' ideals of old comes from growing appreciation that we are in fact the lever - wielding great power but unable to do something meaningful with it. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher.