I flagged this article because to me the requirement for a HN submission should be that it makes the reader a smarter or better person.  This does neither.  Le

I flagged this article because to me the requirement for a HN submission should be that it makes the reader a smarter or better person.  This does neither.  Let me be clear that I don’t approve of what Goldman Sachs did.  But there’s no moral lesson to be learned here for the rest of us.  Unless you’re really suggesting that people need to be told it’s wrong to inflate the cost of food sold to starving people. On the other end of the spectrum the article doesn’t suggest anything that we as HN readers can do to prevent this in the future.  If this very same article was posted but had less emphasis on “Goldman Sachs is evil” and more emphasis on how we as citizens can prevent such things from happening I’d consider it appropriate.   But the author only makes one suggestion to rectify the solution and it essentially boils down to “shout louder that lobbyists are bad.”  So in the end I don’t think this is really HN material.  It’s not that there’s anything wrong with sharing it in other venues but the stated purpose of HN is to stimulate intellectual thought and debate and this just doesn’t do that.