I liked the article and I never want to tell anyone that their experience is invalid or shouldn't be shared because they're privileged or whatever. I feel like

I liked the article and I never want to tell anyone that their experience is invalid or shouldn't be shared because they're privileged or whatever. I feel like HN should introspect a little more when it comes to this. The high society founders seek to join is going to include people at all levels of the social hierarchy, there's a very fine line between a wish for someone's perspective to be more relatable and lowbrow entitlement which is completely unproductive but very seductive to want to use to explain your lack of success. Yes, people exist in the world that never had to work for a thing in their entire lives. There exist people that had to work 10% as hard as you did. Dismissing these people's opinions or shared experiences is literally robbing you of valuable perspective that can drastically reduce the amount of effort you have to employ.