I first read the comments page on nakedcapitalism.com before browsing these comments. It is interesting that these articles are discussed on HN as a proxy for

I first read the comments page on nakedcapitalism.com before browsing these comments. It is interesting that these articles are discussed on HN as a proxy for using the comment section of the actual site, but I guess that is the norm these days. I would kind of expect the discussion at the actual site to be more informed as only more dedicated people to the topic would have membership at the smaller site. But I feel like, more or less, the discussion here mirrors the one on nakedcapitalism. It would be interesting to bucket all the arguments that are more or less the same. I see the following: (in answer to why have wages stagnated) * 'its because the rich are greedy assholes who have corrupted government' * its due to globalization or cannot be explained without factoring this in * its because of some complex unorthodox economic theory (insert here) I can tolerate the comments on HN more than on reddit where I can only anticipate the ratio would tilt so heavily in favour of just emotional outbursts against rich greedy assholes that get upvoted by online pitchforked mobs ready for the revolution. These main lines of thought spawn mini threads that swirl like like pools of attention suckage in a steady stream of water. What I think would be interesting would be for some kind of automatic moderation that parses out the main arguments, prevents de-railments, crushes duplication, and forces the true competing arguments to face each other head on in the rational arena.